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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to aputerguy on 11/5/2009 2:34 PM:
>> >From the cygwin shell, I can do tab-completion on drive letters to get
>> things like C:/usr/bin/ls
>> However, when I press return, I get:
>>       bash: C:/usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
>> Which is understandable since the file is in C:\cygwin\usr\bin\ls
>> So, why is bash tab completion messing up here? (note the same behavior was
>> true in cygwin 1.5 too so this is not a "new" bug.
> 
> This is not a bug, but a feature of bash tab-completion.  'man bash', and
> search for COMP_WORDBREAKS.  Note that : is a special character, in that
> it marks a boundary of a word (so you are completing "/usr/bin/ls", not
> "c:/usr/bin/ls").  In other words, completion sees a different file name
> than ls.  All the more reason to use posix-y paths and avoid drive letters.

  Or escape the colon -

> admin AT ubik ~
> $ c\:/WINNT/system32/[TAB][TAB]
> Display all 1869 possibilities? (y or n)
>

    cheers,
      DaveK

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