Dear Interweb...
Quick question for the Interweb regarding bash completion. If I do cat ~/[tab], I get to pick from 182 completions, as it lists all of the dotfiles. Is there a way of telling bash to only complete dot files if I put a dot, otherwise only complete non-hidden files? Answers on a postcard, or if you must, a comment on this blog. Thanks!
NP: IBM 1401, a User's Manual, Jóhann Jóhannsson
Posted by skateinmars at Thu Jan 18 10:49:22 2007:
Posted by Wouter Bolsterlee at Thu Jan 18 10:54:01 2007:
From the bash manpage:
match-hidden-files (On)
This variable, when set to On, causes readline to match files whose names begin with a
‘.’ (hidden files) when performing filename completion, unless the leading ‘.’ is sup‐
plied by the user in the filename to be completed.
Posted by Wouter Bolsterlee at Thu Jan 18 10:57:42 2007:
match-hidden-files (On)
This variable, when set to On, causes readline to match files whose names begin with a
‘.’ (hidden files) when performing filename completion, unless the leading ‘.’ is sup‐
plied by the user in the filename to be completed.
Btw, you have to add this line to ~/.inputrc (don't type it into your shell!) to get it working:
set match-hidden-files off
Posted by David Mills at Thu Jan 18 11:03:42 2007:
set match-hidden-files off
You could also try setting GLOBIGNORE to .*, like that the bash auto-path-complete will ignore anything starting with a . . (nb: GLOBIGNORE is a colon seperated list of values, so you could also add other elements in there if you wanted to.
David
Posted by Jim at Thu Jan 18 11:17:55 2007:
Posted by Ross at Thu Jan 18 11:21:27 2007:
Posted by Dave at Thu Jan 18 13:55:26 2007:
Posted by skampi at Thu Jan 18 16:40:24 2007:
Posted by Wouter Bolsterlee at Thu Jan 18 19:32:49 2007:
David
