On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:27:43PM -0500, John Mahowald wrote: > On 9/8/05, hpt <hanpingtian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think that the bash-completion would allow the gzip to complete a file > > name which doesn't end with ".gz", for example a file named "gzipfile" > > while the gzip's options is "-dc". Because when use "-dc", gzip dosen't > > care about the file name's suffix. > > > I don't get what you mean. bash tab completion fills in commands on > your path and existing files from what you typed so far. gzip doesn't > care about extensions, I could compress something and call it > file.foo, and the file command would still know it's gzip compress and > gunzip would decompress it. The original poster is talking about the bash-completion RPM package. See this month's Red Hat Magazine, which mentions it: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/features/extras/#bash-completion Tim. </plug>
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