[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#685223: Bug#685223: does not properly expand with tar long options

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:04:30PM +0400, Igor Murzov wrote:
> > tar --extract --file tarfi<TAB> does not work even if a tarfile.tar is
> > present in the current directory. On the other hand, tar xf tarfi<TAB>
> > works. Looks like long option processing was omitted when the
> > completion rules for tar were written.
> 
> Handling long options is not yet implemented for tar.

I reckoned so. This is, however, a regression from older versions of
bash since this worked earlier. Is there any way to revert to the old
behavior?

Greetings
Marc

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