This one time, at band camp, Taryn East wrote:
>If I have a file called foobar and a directory called foobaz and I type
>"cd foo" and hit <tab>...
>
>why does tab-completion offer both choices?
>
>AFAIK it makes no sense to cd to a file - so I was wondering why
>tab-completion isn't intelligent enough to just not bother with files.

You're using bash?  zsh's completion is already smart like that and knows
about what files a command takes, so tab completion of cds arguments only
offers directory names.

zsh leads the universe in tab completion technology!

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