[Bash-completion-devel] Removal of " -o filenames" to " complete"

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Nov 3 20:44:03 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Freddy Vulto wrote:

> Debian has a user `nobody' with home dir `/nonexistent' which should
> (and does) complete with a space instead of a slash.

FWIW, nobody's home dir is / on Fedora and CentOS systems.  On FreeBSD it 
seems to be /nonexistent, and on one Solaris box I have access to it's /.

> But this should be
> detected dynamically by the test suite.  I think looping over the
> `compgen -u' in `ls.exp' and make the two lists for two separate tests
> would do..?

Quite likely.



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