bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
Tue May 11 06:59:00 GMT 2004
Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure
with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in
the past have achieved
ls /ho<TAB>
ls /home/
or
md5sum /us<TAB>loc<TAB>
md5sum /usr/local/
and so on.
Now, all I am getting from ls /ho<TAB> or md5sum /us<TAB> is a system beep
(i.e. "error!" or some kind of uncertainty or ambiguity affecting bash's
interpretation).
For pathnames starting elsewhere, there's not a problem. E.g. from HOME I
can press
cd st<TAB>
cd stash
or (cf. problem described above) if I actually *move* to / I can press
ls ho<TAB>
ls home/
or
md5sum us<TAB>loc<TAB>
md5sum usr/local/
I attach the output from cygcheck -srv. My ~/.inputrc has not altered for
many months and includes the two lines
set completion-ignore-case On
set show-all-if-ambiguous On
Thanks.
Fergus
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