[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#618303: bash-completion: adds "<space>" rather than "/" after "cp directory<tab>"

Kumar Appaiah a.kumar at alumni.iitm.ac.in
Sat Apr 16 22:30:11 UTC 2011


Dear Kevin,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:26:01PM -0700, Kevin Mitchell wrote:
> This is a regression from 1.2-3.
> 
> I have a directory named "directory"
> 
> cp directory<tab>
> 
> completes with a space as if there are no other possibilities (i.e. it
> does not give the opportunity to further specify directory contents
> without first typing backspace and then "/").

Do you have Adobe's Acrobat? In other words, you have
/etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh?

I had that; moving it out of the way solved the problem for me.

Thanks.

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah





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