> The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like "find /etc/passwd -print" would show.
David On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote: >> <Paul.Domaskis> writes: >> ><Paul.Domaskis> writes: >> >> I'm using the following 64-bit packages: >> >> >> >> cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 >> >> >> >> If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory >> >> _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type "ls _" or >> >> "ls _v" and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't really do >> >> anything about it because it took months to approve the use of >> >> cygwin install CDs made near the beginning of the year, but I was >> >> wondering the problem is reproducible by others? >> > >> > Oops, my bad. The phrase "file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles" should >> > read "files _vimrc and _viminfo". The directory is actually >> > "vimfiles" and has no underscore. >> >> I'm not sure if this is a false alarm, but I have another error in my >> original post, due to my haste in cobbling together an arbitrary >> example. In actuality, completion does not fail for "ls _v". It >> fails for "find _v". But it works for other commands like ls and >> find. Again, lack of completion fails only when trying to specify >> filenames starting with underscore as arguments to the find command. > > File names or directory names? The path argument to find must be a > directory, so the bash-completion function for find completes only > directory names when it is expecting the path argument. Bash alone, > without the bash-completion package, doesn't know anything about > find's arguments and will complete file names, too. > > The ls command, on the other hand, can be used to list files or > directories so the ls bash-completion function expands both. > > Regards, > Gary > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple