On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:27 -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. > I want to say that if you has installed bash-completion, and use gzip to decompress some file as gzip -dc f<tab> then if there is a foo.gz and a foo in current directory, the bash-completion only complete the foo.gz, though you want to decompress the foo. In this moment, the gzip with "-dc" doesn't care about the suffix. So the bash-completion should complete the foo either.
