[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312409] No completions for files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d

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Fri Nov 25 19:00:19 UTC 2011


Bugs item #312409, was changed at 2010-03-23 15:18 by Ville Skyttä
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Mark Rosenstand (rosenstand-guest)
>Assigned to: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Summary: No completions for files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
>Milestone: 2.0
>Status: Fix Committed
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Trying to tab-complete "vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/" gives no result even though the directory holds two files.

This is upstream 1.1 with debian/patches/*.patch applied from Debian's 1.1-3 and bash 4.1(.002).

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>Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2011-11-25 21:00

Message:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=81dd740

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Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2010-03-24 11:34

Message:
This is because the compgen spec in question tries to avoid listing *.so and *.so.* as completions _but_ to list *.so.conf in them, and it tries to do it with (unrelated bits removed from the glob):

complete -f -X '*.@(so|so.!(conf))'

However as you noted this fails for example when completing files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ with full path because the -X pattern applies to whole completion strings (in this case, the whole file path, not just the file basename), and all /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* full paths match '*.so.!(conf)' and thus get excluded.  I'm not sure what would be the best way to fix this, and I suppose we might have similar problems here and there elsewhere in bash completion.

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