Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05-4

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

Never mind.  I see what you were driving at now.  Corrina has the 
explanation.

Larry


>Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:08:55 -0400
>To: Frank-Michael Moser <moser@decodon.com>, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05-4
>
>I think you will find this is a user-error.  bash has always searched my
>path for commands.  YMMV but I believe this is considered a feature rather
>than a bug...
>
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>
>At 02:08 PM 5/3/2001, Frank-Michael Moser wrote:
>>I just saw, that it is no question of being *.exe, script or builtin.
>>Here is a listing of my bin directory and you see cvsrelease as
>>executable:
>>
>>moser@FMM ~/bin
>>$ l
>>total 19
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein           37 Apr 10 15:13 beep*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          859 Apr 10 15:13 completejava*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          241 Apr 10 15:13 contains*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          215 Apr 17 15:55 cvs-status*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          666 Apr 17 19:28 cvsrelease*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          760 Apr 10 15:13 jai*
>>-rwx------   1 544      Kein          504 Apr 25 22:42 jedit*
>>
>>Here is the output of cvs<TAB>
>>
>>moser@FMM ~/bin
>>$ cvs
>>cvs-status  cvs.exe     cvsedit     cvsunlock
>>
>>Looks strange...?!
>>
>>Typing ./cvs<TAB> then gives a completion:
>>
>>moser@FMM ~/bin
>>$ ./cvs-status
>>
>>Only command completion suffers, file completion works, 
>>cat "cvs<TAB>" gives:
>>
>>moser@FMM ~/bin
>>$ cat cvs
>>cvs-status  cvsrelease
>>
>>Both scripts start with #!/bin/bash
>>
>>What a kind of user-problem should this be ?
>>
>>
>>Frank-Michael.
>>
>>
>>
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:56:33PM +0200, Frank-Michael Moser wrote:
>> > > The problem described in thread "bash 2.05-3: completion"
>> > > resists, in bash-2.05-4, too: completion only shows *.exe
>> > > and builtins.
>> > 
>> > I'm pretty sure it's a user error. I have just tried to
>> > use bash's completion to complete my script called `kssh'
>> > by typing ks<TAB> and it worked as expected, both, with
>> > -3 and -4.
>> > 
>> > Corinna
>> > 
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