On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Göbel <goebel.thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > * <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> [24.09.2009 21:27]: >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Xavier schrieb: >> >> >> >> I just tried git, before realizing there was a good pkgbuild for it : >> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27520 >> >> >> >> and it does not work either. >> > >> > I also checked the git code for dd and it is identical to the 1.0 code. >> >> Found the issue. It's not dd specific at all, it has to do with bash's >> setting of the COMP_WORDBREAKS >> >> $ echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS >> "'><=;|&(: >> >> These are word separators for completion words. The command "dd >> if=<tab>" contains 3 completion words - "dd", "if", and "=" with the >> current word being "=". >> >> If you do the following, it works: >> >> $ export COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//=} >> $ dd if=<tab> >> >> I suggest reporting this is a bug in bash_completion, as fixing this >> is rather complex > > Didn`t work for me. dd if=<tab> shows me the content of the actual > directory. If i now type /ho<tab> "dd if=/ho<tab>" the string if=/ho > will be displaced to "dd /home". Ah, well obviously it's more complicated than I though. The point is, that the COMP_WORDBREAKS setting, is splitting "if=" into "if" and "=", which doesn't match the case statement. If we want to fix this just for dd, we need to match the "=" and then get the previous word in COMP_WORDS prev="${COMP_WORDS[$(($COMP_CWORD -1))]}" Aaaaand... that doesn't work. I dunno, this is confusing, but the point is, it's splitting on the "if=" and thus can never complete as is
