On 5/22/10 2:07 PM, Henning Bekel wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' - > DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' - > DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' - > DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -march=i686 - > mtune=generic -O2 -pipe > uname output: Linux box 2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 13 12:06:25 > CEST 2010 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 4.1 > Patch Level: 7 > Release Status: release > > Description: > When the first word of the command line is a path containing > slashes and ending in a slash or a partial filename of a > non-executable file, if completion is attempted first via the > readline function "complete" and after that with > "complete-filename", then completion fails and > "complete-filename" behaves similar to "complete" in that it > only matches executable files and directories.
Thanks for the report. complete-filename is not supposed to pay attention to executable files when completing in a command position the way complete does. This will be fixed in the next release of bash. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/