Re: possible compgen bug

2008-05-13 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: probably errornous behavior: when using compgen to allow shortcuts (in the below example for quit and exit I get a strange behavior when no input is entered and write times out after 5 seconds: #! /bin/bash read -p

possible compgen bug

2008-05-10 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
HI ! problem: compgen assigns first option on receiving an empty string as input (i.e. by read -t 5 VAR timing out) systems and OS: X86 (Duron and Sempron) Debian etch: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/shell$ uname -a Linux backup 2.6.18-hpt374 #4 SMP Thu Mar 20 00:07:28 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux