F12: bash-completion issues?
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Aug 13 15:55:36 UTC 2010
On 08/13/2010 06:29 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I am assuming wrong, but it appears that bash-completion is
>> not working for local files in the gnome-terminal?
>>
>> For example, I know there is a file in my desktop called
>> "ListAvailable" so I tried this:
>>
>> # yum list available > List<tab>
>>
>> and bash completion refuses to locate the local file and to expand
>> it.
>>
>> Is this expected?
>>
> Yes. If you have installed the bash-completion package, then yum
> provides an expanded set of completions for its commands. The
> list of completions for yum list available [tab] are going to come
> from the repositories, not from the local files in your working
> directory.
>
> If you had a file names ListAvailable in your working dir, what would
> you want 'yum list available ListAvailable' to do? Per the yum man
> page, the syntax for the command is:
>
> yum list available [glob_exp1] [...]
>
> Having it expand a local file makes little sense to me.
>
Um, look closely:
# yum list available > List<tab>
There is an output redirect, that is, the '>' character before the List<Tab>
This should have worked... right?
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