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.