Problem with bash filename completetion

[Joachim Backes]

On 15.10.2015 18:15, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/15/2015 04:10 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 15.10.2015 12:47, Jon Ingason wrote:
>>> Den 2015-10-15 kl. 10:44, skrev Joachim Backes:
>>>> So it seems that the ":" in the filename "vb-2015-10-15_07:51:53-win10"
>>>> is the culprit.
>>>
>>> : is a builtin command in sh (and all derivative), see man builtins.
>>
>> This can't be the problem! Otherwise, I would have similar problems with
>> filenames containing "." (dots) in the names, because "." is a builtin
>> command too.
>>
> No, it has nothing to do with the internal command.  It's part of the
> bash completion system.  A colon is used as some sort of separator for
> completion.  Lookup COMP_WORDBREAKS for more info.
>

Sounds good. Thank you for the hint!

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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