Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com> writes: > David is right: find does accept a file name as the path argument. > I didn't know that. (Obviously.) The man page doesn't really say, > but all references to the path argument suggest that it contains a > directory or list of directories. > > Nevertheless, the completion function for find (_find(), in > /etc/bash_completion.d/findutils or > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/find) does expect that > argument to be a directory and expands only directories.
I think I will need to deepen my knowledge into the bowels of unix. This thread is the first I've heard that completion depended on the command being typed. Thanks, all. -- 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
