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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:15:30 -0500
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On 2/16/2012 1:04 AM, Pan ruochen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found that sometimes<TAB>  key wouldn't do auto completion.
> My case is:
> there is 3 files in the directory: a.sh g.txt g1.txt
>
> And I type: sh a.sh g
> and then I would like to use bash completion to speed up typing.
> But nothing happened when I type<TAB>.
> It seemed that bash could not complete `g' to `g.txt' at all.
>
> The cygiwn version is:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 3CNL12311 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin
>
> I never came across this error before. I don't know it is a new bug or not.
> And I attached the directory package. Hope it locate the cause of the problem.

There's nothing new here.  bash will complete any unambiguous file name.
In your case, you don't have an unambiguous file name that starts with
'g'.  You need to type either 'g.' or 'g1' to get bash to complete the
rest.  If you're ever not sure why bash hasn't done what you expect, you can 
always hit <TAB> again to see what possible completions exist.  bash
will list them.

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Larry

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