[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#623562: Bug#623562: /etc/bash_completion.d/sh: please provide simple file completion for sh

[David Paleino]

tags 623562 wontfix upstream
retitle 623562 please provide generic file completion for $command
thanks

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:08:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> [..]
> With the current bash completion
> 
> 	sh ref<tab>
> 
> doesn't complete ref to refresh though the match is unique.
> For now I'm adding
> 
> 	complete -r sh
> 
> in my .bashrc which makes the completion work for me again.

"sh" is completing on .sh files. So just call your script "refresh.sh".

With my upstream hat on, I'm tagging this as wontfix.

Almost no unix command takes care of file extensions, but only of their
contents. If I accepted your bug, I could just complete on filenames for any
command -- and there would be no need of bash-completion (apart from
non-filename-completions), because plain bash already does this ;)

Kindly,
David

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