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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:43:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Lynn Wilson <lynn AT swcp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: File name completion on symbolic links
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Lynn Wilson wrote:

> This is a very minor issue and it may be just a Bash problem, but...
>
> When I use Bash to do file name completion (using Tab) on a DIRECTORY
> that is a symlink I do not get the trailing slash '/'.
>
> If it's a real directory, the TAB results in the completion of the
> directory name with an appended slash.  If it's a symlink, I get the
> directory name but NO slash.
>
> This is the part of my mount table that may be of interest:
>
> c:\program files on /PF type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /c type system (binmode)
> d: on /d type system (binmode,noumount)
>
> cd /c
> c> ls -ald Sources Public
> drwxr-xr-x+   4 lrwilso  mkgroup      4096 Aug 13 11:28 public/
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 lrwilso  mkgroup       100 Aug 13 09:52 Sources ->
> /d/Sources
>
>
> ls pub<tab>  yields  "ls public/"
> ls  Sou<tab> yields "ls Sources"
>
> any insight?
>
> Lynn

Lynn,

Put the following in your ~/.inputrc:

set mark-symlinked-directories on

This should do it.
	Igor
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