[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#648319: bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion script doesn't do the job

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 08:39:43 UTC 2012


rush wrote:
> 2012/1/11, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>:

>> I don't follow.  Isn't COMPAT_DIR _supposed_ to point to
>> /etc/bash_completion.d?  Which completion is not working?
>
> If I specify /etc/bash_completion.d in this variable noone from
> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ will work. I tested on ssh,
> ip, apt-get, aptitude and others (nothing happens on TAB [[only dirs
> suggested for completion]]).

Ah, I see.  Good catch --- it's due to this line:

    [[ $BASH_SOURCE == */* ]] && compdir="${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/completions"

Probably something like

    local compscript=$(readlink -f "$BASH_SOURCE")
    [[ $compscript == */* ]] && compdir="${compscript%/*}/completions"

in its place would do the trick.

Thanks for finding it.

Sincerely,
Jonathan





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