Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:38:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Tab completion in BASH 2.04
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jason Green wrote:

> bash-2.04$ rmdir c:/foo
> 
>  press TAB
> 
> bash-2.04$ rmdir c:/foo bar/
> 
> The directory is obviously found ok, but the colon and space have not
> been escaped.

I'm not sure the colon needs to be escaped (why?), but the space
should.

Also, perhaps Bash should support completion when the file name is
quoted, like this:


  bash-2.04$ rmdir "c:/foo TAB

Right now, I need to type this:

  bash-2.04$ rmdir "c:/foo" TAB

(note the closing quote) to get Bash 2.04 DTRT, but it then removes
the quotes after the completion :-(.

I guess this is one more reason not to use spaces in file names ;-)