[arch-general] dd and bash_completion

[Thomas Göbel]

* <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> [24.09.2009 21:27]:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Xavier schrieb:
> >>
> >> I just tried git, before realizing there was a good pkgbuild for it :
> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27520
> >>
> >> and it does not work either.
> >
> > I also checked the git code for dd and it is identical to the 1.0 code.
> 
> Found the issue. It's not dd specific at all, it has to do with bash's
> setting of the COMP_WORDBREAKS
> 
> $ echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS
> "'><=;|&(:
> 
> These are word separators for completion words. The command "dd
> if=<tab>" contains 3 completion words - "dd", "if", and "=" with the
> current word being "=".
> 
> If you do the following, it works:
> 
> $ export COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//=}
> $ dd if=<tab>
> 
> I suggest reporting this is a bug in bash_completion, as fixing this
> is rather complex

Didn`t work for me. dd if=<tab> shows me the content of the actual
directory. If i now type /ho<tab> "dd if=/ho<tab>" the string if=/ho
will be displaced to "dd /home".
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