[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#497597: bash-completion: gdb argument completions returns error

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 08:38:17 UTC 2008


On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:56:35 +0900, Morita Sho wrote:

> Hi,

Hello,

> On 09/07/2008 01:05 PM, Kevin Mitchell wrote:
> > Ok, well it probably should have occured to me to actually include my
> > $PATH variable:
> > 
> > $ echo $PATH
> > :/home/kevmitch/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> > 
> > Note the preceding ":" which should include the current directory in
> > accordance with bash(1):
> > [..]
> > Is there a
> > straightforward way to search and replace an empty field with "." for
> > find's benefit other than a for/sed?  
> 
> I guess removing any zero-length directory name before splitting the PATH 
> variable solves the problem.

Yes, probably.

> A patch is attached.

Great, thanks :)

Fixed in rev1178

Kindly,
David

P.S.: however, I read somewhere (can't remember where, sorry), that adding "."
to $PATH is a bad habit...

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