Re: `complete -f` does not work at all.

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/6/24 12:12 AM, Frederick Abell wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 37
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>       `compete -f`/`complete -A file` do not work at all, whilst `complete 
> -d`/`complete -A directory` work fine.
>       Someone from 2008 appears to have the same issue:
>       
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/bash-completion-complete-f-not-working-635918/
>
>       I also tested this on a recent version of Debian stable, with the same 
> results.
>       Thank you for your time.
>
> Repeat-By:
>       $ bash --norc                       # irrelevant
>       $ ls /etc/inputrc $HOME/.inputrc    # irrelevant
>       ls: cannot access '/etc/inputrc': No such file or directory
>       ls: cannot access '/home/fkabell/.inputrc': No such file or directory
>       $ pacman -Q readline
>       readline 8.2.013-1
>       $ mkdir a_dir b_dir
>       $ touch c_file d_file
>       $ ls -F
>       a_dir/  b_dir/  c_file  d_file
>       $ complete -d cd  # works fine
>       $ cd <tab>
>       a_dir/ b_dir/
>       $ complete -f cat # does not work
>       $ cat <tab>
>       a_dir/  b_dir/  c_file  d_file
>
>       # I was expecting to only see c_file and d_file.

`complete -f' is basically the same as readline's filename completion,
which includes directories in the list of possible completions because
filenames can appear in subdirectories of the current directory, and
readline allows you to build up a pathname by completing one component
at a time.


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

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