[arch-general] dd and bash_completion

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Thu Sep 24 08:23:15 EDT 2009


Alessandro Doro schrieb:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0200, Thomas Göbel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd
>> if=/h<TAB> will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion
>> everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this?
>>
> After these updates:
> [2009-09-24 13:23] upgraded bash (4.0.028-1 -> 4.0.033-1)
> [2009-09-24 13:23] upgraded bash-completion (1.0-2 -> 1.0-3)
> completion of file/directory names after if= works here.
> 
> The completion of the dd command line options doesn't work.
> 

The difference is in the bash package: We now also load bash_completion 
by default in non-login shells, while it only happened for login-shells 
before.

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