[Bash-completion-devel] bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Reuben Thomas rrt at sc3d.org
Sun May 11 13:19:51 UTC 2008


On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:

> tags 376433 wontfix moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Reuben, why should mkdir complete on filenames? Mkdir is a 
> directory-only command -- am I wrong?

I often want to create a directory with a similar name to an existing file.

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