On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: > >> >> On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X (10.5); and >>> as Robert noted, you can teach the Finder with the Get-Info trick. >> >> The issue with tar is not on whether tar -xf foo.spkg works, but >> whether tar -xf sage_scripts<tab> will complete the remainder of the >> filename. > > I think I'm missing something. Does 'bash' know about commands and > their "file types"? If I type > tar -xf foo[TAB] > and there's a "foo.spkg" in my working directory, I get the > completion, unless there are several files with names beginning with > "foo" (and then a second [TAB] gives me that list). Does 'bash' do > something special in that case? Or am I missing your point? > > Justin
Justin, On my OS X machine I see exactly the behavior you describe above. On my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop, I see the behavior that Tim describes -- where tab completion does not work. Both boxes have bash 3.2.x, so probably somehow the default configuration on os x and linux is different, as explained later in this thread. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
