Bruce Korb wrote:
I do not know if this is an obsolete feature or not,
Not as far as I can tell.
but using
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release I can press TAB and get
file name completion on arguments like ``*abc'' when there is
only one file ending in ``abc''. With my version at home
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release I have not figured out how
to do that. Even after ensuring that all the common ``set -o''
and ``shopt'' options are set the same way. Nothing I've thought
to Google for has gotten me to any explanation, so I am writing.
FWIW this seems to work for me. Other differences might be programmable
completion, also by default file completion only happens on second args.
Here's my shopt and set -o in case it helps you:
$ shopt
cdable_vars off
cdspell off
checkhash off
checkwinsize off
cmdhist on
dotglob off
execfail off
expand_aliases on
extdebug off
extglob off
extquote on
failglob off
force_fignore on
gnu_errfmt off
histreedit off
histappend off
histverify off
hostcomplete on
huponexit off
interactive_comments on
lithist off
login_shell on
mailwarn off
no_empty_cmd_completion off
nocaseglob off
nullglob off
progcomp on
promptvars on
restricted_shell off
shift_verbose off
sourcepath on
xpg_echo off
$ set -o
allexport off
braceexpand on
emacs on
errexit off
errtrace off
functrace off
hashall on
histexpand on
history on
ignoreeof off
interactive-comments on
keyword off
monitor on
noclobber off
noexec off
noglob off
nolog off
notify off
nounset off
onecmd off
physical off
pipefail off
posix off
privileged off
verbose off
vi off
xtrace off
--
Matthew
Sending this e-mail does not constitute endorsement of the contents; I
may change my mind later.
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