[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#496828: findutils: unexpected -path behaviour

[David Paleino]

Hello Benoît,

(sorry for missing headers, I'm "manually quoting").

Benoît Dejean wrote:
> I use bash-completion.
> When i'm in my ~ and want to run a java program,
> i type 'java P<tab>' to actually run 'java Prime',
> then bash spawns a
> 
> find . -type f -path ./P*.class

James Youngman wrote:
> find . -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -name 'P*.class' \) -o \( -type d -name 'P*' \)
> 
> However, this will not return ./P/Q/R/S/T/foo.class, even if that is
> the only class file below the current directory, so there is a change
> in functionality in my proposal.

I do really believe we don't want automatic research of classes in
subdirectories. A simple "_filedir" completion should do the trick (obviously,
files restricted to *.class, and all the directories).

So, if foo.class is the only class below the cwd, you'd have to do multiple
<TAB>s, to go in the correct directory where the .class is. Otherwise, that find
command you cited is the only option, to correctly search for .class files.

In the case James cited, would multiple <TAB>s be a desired behaviour? I
believe yes, since one should know where the class file is...

I'm fixing this bug (rev1167) by just adding "-maxdepth 1", but I'll wait for a
reply in case you want me to revert the change. Moreover, a new bug appeared:

$ ls
foo/
foo.class
$ java f<TAB>
$ java foo/

We should give precedence to files over directories, but I don't currently have
idea on how to do that.

To team: before releasing, look at the FIXME in the code, we'd probably better
revert the change if we find no solution.

Kindly,
David

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