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Date:  Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:35:45 -0700
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:58 -0700, Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
wrote:


> ...are you in ~/bin when you try to tab-complete ./myscript.sh? If you 
> are in ~, then the path would be bin/myscript.sh, not ./myscript.sh. 
> (Does trying to complete the full path (~/bin/myscript.sh) work?)

>> ~ $ .~/bin/myscript<DOES NOT complete>
>> cygdrive/g/ $ ./myscript<DOES NOT complete>
>
>Huh?  Are you just trying random things?  Neither of those should
>complete because they're invalid.  "." means the current directory.  So,
>typing ./foo means "a file named foo in the current directory", and if
>you're in /cygdrive/g there is no such file myscript.sh, thus nothing to
>complete.  .~/bin is even more nonsensical.
>
Yes, I am trying random things in response to the previous poster. It
may lead me to a better understanding of the issue; most of the time
it sends me on a tangent.



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