On 4/30/10 2:51 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Put the cursor after the word "list" and hit TAB:
> # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm
> Emacssources.list eeepc.list tw.list
> # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ #|cpio -o|ssh 192.168.44.4 cpio -ivdm
>
> Notice how we are shown the completions, but then the "*list" has been
> gobbled up!
> BASH_VERSION='4.1.5(1)-release'
Yep. Readline relies on matching prefixes: if there are multiple
completions, it replaces the word to be completed with the longest
common prefix. In this case, there isn't one.
The builtin bash completion won't perform replacement when a globbing
pattern expands to more than one filename, even when they share a common
prefix. I have to assume that you're using programmable completion,
and the compspec for `find' doesn't impose the same restriction.
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