On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > According to Tim Visher on 2/26/2010 6:46 AM: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm working on my bashrc and I found [this >> line](http://pastie.org/844068) > > Pasting 3 lines to pastebin was a waste; just inline them in your email: > > case $- in > *i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;; > esac
Yeah. I hate GMail's text formatting so I was basically trying to avoid that. You're right, though. >> My question then, is what exactly is this line doing? > > It is seeing if you have bash-completion installed, and if so, loading it, > so that your tab-completion is more powerful. The check for an i within > $- is to make sure your shell is interactive, as it is a waste to start > bash-completion in a non-interactive shell. I had worked that much out. My question was a little preemptive so I apologize for clogging up the inboxes. I was actually just being lazy and not looking up bash case statements and syntax. Thanks for your help! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
