[arch-general] dd and bash_completion

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 23:44:01 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Armando M. Baratti
<ambaratti.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Strange, for me the completion works fine:
> $ dd if=/h<tab>
> $ dd if=/home
>
> The only thing is I'm not using the package bash-completion, but bash
> completion works anyway for me.
> Maybe someone could try to remove bash-completion package and try again.

It's known to work fine WITHOUT bash-completion. Normally bash will
only complete filenames. When using bash-completion, which provides
better completions for things, it fails. The bug was found and fixed
in bash-completion's git repo


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