Freddy Vulto wrote: > Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 48 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The manual says that upon unsetting HOSTFILE, the hostname list is > cleared: > > HOSTFILE > Contains the name of a file in the same format as /etc/hosts > that should be read when the shell needs to complete a hostname. > The list of possible hostname completions may be changed while > the shell is running; the next time hostname completion is > attempted after the value is changed, bash adds the contents of > the new file to the existing list. If HOSTFILE is set, but has > no value, bash attempts to read /etc/hosts to obtain the list of > possible hostname completions. When HOSTFILE is unset, the > hostname list is cleared. > > but when I do so, instead of returning nothing, `compgen -A > hostname' returns strange data.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
