[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#481244: bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named "tgz"

[David Paleino]

tags 481244 confirmed
thanks

Hi Hervé,

On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:31 +0200, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:

> We use a directory named "tgz" containing archives. One school suffix
> their archives with ".tar.gz" while the other one suffix them with
> ".tgz".
> 
> I've just discovered that bash is unable to complete on "tgz/*.tar.gz".
> 
> A test case to reproduce it:
> [..]
> 
> bash-completion will autocomplete foobar.tgz, ignoring the other one.
> 
> Rename the directory "tgz" into "blah", redo the test and
> bash-completion will autocomplete up to "tgz/foobar.t". Another <TAB>
> and it is now proposing the two choices.

I can confirm this bug.
Thanks for your report, we'll work on this.

Kindly,
David

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