Re: Re: Spurious warnings about MS-DOS paths

[Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu>]

On 2:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/13/2011 09:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A recent cygwin update has started spewing warnings such as the
>> following when I do tab completion on a path containing spaces:
>>> $ cd ~/Home/Documents/Pcygwin warning:
>>>    MS-DOS style path detected: ~/Home/Documents/PC\ reviews\ 2011
>>>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: ~/Home/Documents/PC/ reviews/ 2011
>>>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
>>> warning.
>>>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>> Would it be possible to make the check exclude common character escapes?
> No, but it probably is an upstream bug the bash-completion package worth
> reporting and fixing.  Can you use 'set -vx' just before typing the
> command that triggers the message, so I can see which command in the
> completion function is insufficiently quoting the pathname such that a
> glob completion is being inappropriately attempted on escape characters?
I don't have bash-completion(s) installed.

If set -vx would be useful with vanilla bash, I'm happy to try it, though.

Regards,
Ryan


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