Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Paul.Domaskis!

>> David is right:  find does accept a file name as the path argument.
>> I didn't know that.  (Obviously.)  The man page doesn't really say,
>> but all references to the path argument suggest that it contains a
>> directory or list of directories.
>>
>> Nevertheless, the completion function for find (_find(), in
>> /etc/bash_completion.d/findutils or
>> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/find) does expect that
>> argument to be a directory and expands only directories.

> I think I will need to deepen my knowledge into the bowels of unix.
> This thread is the first I've heard that completion depended on the
> command being typed.  Thanks, all.

That's the reason for bash-completion package.
If you remove it, then the completion will fall back to generic behavior.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 20.09.2014, <8:26>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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