[Bash-completion-devel] bash: File completion bug with executables inside a control structure

[David Paleino]

fixed 131101 20060301-4
thanks

Hi Ajay, hi Peter,

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:12:54 +0530, Ajay Shah wrote:

> The . directory is not on my PATH.
> I happened to have an executable named 'pauseplay' in the . directory.
> 
> In bash, if I say
> 
>   $ pause[TAB]
> 
> bash behaves correctly -- there is no executable starting with 'pause'
> on my $PATH.
> 
> But if I say
> 
>   $ while [ 1 ] ; do pause[TAB]
> 
> bash wrongly completes this! :) He should force me to say
> 
>   $ while [ 1 ] ; do ./pau[TAB]
> 
> which is consistent with $PATH.

On 16 Jul 2002 19:57:41 +1000, Peter Moulder wrote:

> A hacky fix is to define a custom completion for "do" and "then"
> (and perhaps xargs, env, su etc. at the same time).
> [..]


This has been fixed in newer versions of bash (and bash-completion, which has
been split from bash in February 2008). In particular, you won't find it in
20060301-4 (the current testing/unstable version), but I can't really say which
was the first version fixing this.


Thanks for your report,
David

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