Greetings, Paul.Domaskis! >> 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. That's the reason for bash-completion package. If you remove it, then the completion will fall back to generic behavior. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 20.09.2014, <8:26> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
