Re: question about bash-completion and gzip

From: hpt (hanpingtian_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:13:33 +0800

    On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:27 -0500, John Mahowald wrote:
    > On 9/8/05, hpt <hanpingtian@gmail.com> 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. 

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