F17: problems with bash-completion

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 13 14:45:14 UTC 2012


On 06/13/2012 10:22 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Hi
>
> i have two problems noticed in F17
>
> "dmesg <TAB><TAB>" -> "dmesg bash: cur: command not found"
>
> this happens for some commands after <TAB><TAB>

Both as root and a normal user I typed

dmesg<TAB><TAB>  

and no completion was attempted and I didn't get a command not found.   I also tried
with several TAB... nothing...

> _____________________________
>
> [root at rh:~]$ ls messages
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2012-03-30 01:21 messages -> /var/log/messages
> [root at rh:~]$ cat messages
> Jun 13 16:13:04 rh kernel: warning: `growisofs' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
> [root at rh:~]$ > me
>
> why is this completion for empty a textfile no longer working?
> "cat mess<TAB><TAB>" still works

I see this same here....but don't have an answer or theory at the moment.

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