[Bash-completion-devel] Bug with regex for bash-completion hosts-file

Giordon Stark kratsg at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 17:40:09 UTC 2014


This is also broken in 2.1 -- if you run with export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 --
you will see that the regexes using the tabs don't work at all.

Giordon


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Giordon Stark <kratsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all - it appears that the problem lies with BSD sed and Mac OSX's sed
> > doesn't support tabs in the same way as you're using them.
>
> s/you're/you were/ :)
>
> This problem and several similar ones have to my knowledge been fixed
> in current bash-completion versions. 2.1 is the latest release at the
> moment, 1.3 is already three years old and the 1.x branch almost
> certainly won't receive any more updates/fixes.
>
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