On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2016 20:41, "Michael B Allen" <ioplex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have two files: >> >> SUM-12_schematic.pdf >> VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.1-1379776.x86_64.txt >> >> Doing: >> >> # ls SUM<tab> >> >> works as expected and completes the filename but doing: >> >> # sh -f VMw<tab> >> >> does not work. The filename is not completed. >> >> Clearly someone is trying to "help" me and not complete a file that sh >> is not normally known to be used with sh. >> >> Can someone tell me how to disable this "helpful" behavior? > > Maybe the second half of this post: > > https://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disable-bash-autocompletion-on-ubunt/ Rather than switch off bash completion completely, you can prefix "sh -f ..." with a '\" for regular tab completion to take over. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
