On Dec 31, 11:57 am, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 libraryhttp://libvirt.org
This is fair, but it could be a setting a user could change.
