Re: Possible Bug in Auto-Complete

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/6/16 8:53 PM, hungry.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Running Fedora Core, tried 3 different versions of Bash.
> 
> bash-4.3.42-3.fc23.x86_64
> bash-4.3.42-5.fc25.x86_64
> bash-4.3.43-1.fc25.x86_64
> 
> Created a directory with the C equivalent "test\n\t\\ this"
> 
> typing 
> 
> cd test gives me a list of a single file
> 
> test  ^I\ this
> 
> but will not autocomplete.

This is not a problem with bash per se.  It's a problem with the completion
specification you have for `cd', which you presumably got from the bash-
completion package.

Chet

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Re: Possible Bug in Auto-Complete

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sa, Aug 06 2016, hungry.ra...@gmail.com wrote:

> Created a directory with the C equivalent "test\n\t\\ this"
>
> typing 
>
> cd test gives me a list of a single file
>
> test  ^I\ this
>
> but will not autocomplete.

Worksforme.  Make sure you are not using external completion scripts.

Andreas.

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