Re: Slow bash tab completion update

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:40 PM, John Cromartie wrote: > I did 'set -vx', according to Eric Blake's advice. > > Tab completion appears to get hung up for a very long time on 'read -r > tmp', but only on certain paths... Disclaimer: I am not a shell programmer. "read" reads from stdin (or a file

Slow bash tab completion update

I did 'set -vx', according to Eric Blake's advice. Tab completion appears to get hung up for a very long time on 'read -r tmp', but only on certain paths... I have no idea why or how to do anything about it, though. 'read -r tmp' works as expected when I run it from the shell. -John -- Problem