Re: "complete -o filenames" sometimes not working

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/7/24 9:53 AM, Clark Wang wrote:
> See the following reproduce example:
>
> $ cat ssh_compspec
> COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//[=:]/}
>
> function _ssh()
> {
>      local cur="$2" pre="$3"
>      local options=(
>          ProxyCommand='/usr/bin/nc -x host:port %h %p -X 5'
>          ProxyCommand='/usr/bin/nc -x host:port %h %p -X connect'
>          ConnectTimeout=10 )
>      local i saveIFS="$IFS"
>
>      if [[ $pre == '-o' ]]; then
>          for ((i=0; i < ${#options[@]}; ++i)); do
>              options[i]=$( printf '%q' "${options[i]}" )
>          done
>
>          IFS=$'\n'
>          COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "${options[*]}" -- "$cur" ) )
>          IFS=$saveIFS
>      fi
> }
>
> complete -F _ssh -o filenames ssh
> $ . ./ssh_compspec
>
> Then,
>
> $ ssh -o <Tab><Tab>
> ConnectTimeout=10                 nc -x host:port %h %p -X 5        nc -x
> host:port %h %p -X connect
>
> As we can see, "ProxyCommand" is missing.

OK. You asked for the completions to be treated as filenames. When
readline displays the possible completions for filenames, it doesn't
display the full pathname -- just the portion after the final slash.
The words with ProxyCommand= are trimmed to the portion after the
.../usr/bin/.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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