`complete -d cd' does not work for dirs with a ' char

2014-04-23 Thread Clark Wang
See following example with bash-4.3.11: [STEP 101] $ mkdir -p "foo's dir/dir1/dir2" [STEP 102] $ complete -d cd [STEP 103] $ cd [STEP 103] $ cd foo\'s\ dir/ The 1st worked fine but the 2nd failed to work. Bash 4.2.47 and 4.1.9 behaved the same. -clark

Re: test for "command not found" before expanding shell parameters

2014-04-23 Thread Dave Finlay
This might suffice for the initial situation, as long as the expansion is passed in with single quotes: function check_n_run() { greo="$1"; wild="$2" if $(which "$greo" > /dev/null); then $greo $wild; fi } This is too cute to be useful, but it was enjoyable seeing the unintend