[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#506973: bash-completion: soft link completion is broken
David Paleino
d.paleino at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 20:07:05 UTC 2008
tags 506973 confirmed
thanks
Hello Noah,
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:52 +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> [..]
>
> Bash completion fails to account for soft links properly:
>
> nslater at mahora: ~ $ mkdir -p dir-a/dir-b
> nslater at mahora: ~ $ ln -s dir-a/dir-b dir-c
> nslater at mahora: ~ $ touch doc-a
> nslater at mahora: ~ $ touch doc-b
> nslater at mahora: ~ $ cd dir-c
> nslater at mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-
> doc-a doc-b
This is because it considers "dir-c" as a sibling of dir-a, not as
dir-a/dir-b. :(
I don't know whether this is fixable or not. Will have a look.
Thank you for your report.
Kindly,
David
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