On 12/31/2010 09:49 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:49:26 -0500 (EST) linux system >>> with default installation settings. >>> >>> In an earlier version of bash (3.2), the following works >>> ls `pwd`/<tab> (expands pwd). >>> >>> In bash 4.1 it does not. Am I missing a setting or something? >>> Thank you. >> >> Anybody that can at least verify this? Thanks. > > Yes, it works in 3.2 but not in 4.[012].
Personally, I find bash 3.2 behavior buggy - I _don't_ want `` (or $()) expanded by the mere act of tab-completion, as the command may have side effects that I am unwilling to have happen more than once when I hit the final Enter to accept the entire command line. Yes, that means that tab-completion is inherently limited when it cannot determine the context of which directory to look in because the left-hand side of a path name is hidden by a command substitution, but I'd rather live with that safety than have arbitrary commands running during completion. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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