Debian Bug report logs - #376433
bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:31:22 +0100

Package: bash
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: normal

This one's a mystery to me, as mkdir is listed in the list of commands
that complete on filenames, but for me (and tested in a virgin
account), mkdir will only complete directory names, not file names.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                    3.1.13     Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils                   2.16.1     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-2      Shared libraries for terminal hand

bash recommends no packages.

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Message #14 received at 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:06:21 +0200

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tags 376433 wontfix moreinfo
thanks

Hi Reuben,
why should mkdir complete on filenames? Mkdir is a directory-only command -- am
I wrong?

Fellow developers, I'm tagging this as "wontfix" as I don't see any reason why
mkdir should complete also on filenames. Please feel free to retag at will.

Kindly,
David

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Message #19 received at 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

Cc: 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:19:51 +0100 (BST)

On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:

> tags 376433 wontfix moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Reuben, why should mkdir complete on filenames? Mkdir is a 
> directory-only command -- am I wrong?

I often want to create a directory with a similar name to an existing file.

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Message #26 received at 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

Cc: Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:38:03 +0200

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tags 376433 = pending
thanks

On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:19:51 +0100 (BST), Reuben Thomas wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > tags 376433 wontfix moreinfo
> > thanks
> >
> > Hi Reuben, why should mkdir complete on filenames? Mkdir is a 
> > directory-only command -- am I wrong?
> 
> I often want to create a directory with a similar name to an existing file.

Thanks for the quick reply.
I understood your reasoning, and I've just committed the change which fixes
this in our Bzr repository. If you don't want to wait long for a new upload,
here's a quick patch:

--- bash_completion
+++ bash_completion.new
@@ -4154,7 +4154,7 @@
 		COMPREPLY=( $( $1 --help 2>&1 | sed -e '/--/!d' \
 				-e 's/.*\(--[-A-Za-z0-9]\+=\?\).*/\1/' | \
 			       command grep "^$cur" | sort -u ) )
-	elif [[ "$1" == @(mk|rm)dir ]]; then
+	elif [[ "$1" == rmdir ]]; then
 		_filedir -d
 	else
 		_filedir


Please be warned that mkdir will fail if trying to create a directory called as
an existing filename.

Kindly,
David

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Message #31 received at 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

Cc: Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:41:13 +0100 (BST)

On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply.
> I understood your reasoning, and I've just committed the change which fixes
> this in our Bzr repository.

Thanks very much.

> Please be warned that mkdir will fail if trying to create a directory called as
> an existing filename.

That is a great relief!

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Message #36 received at 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

Cc: Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, 376433-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: mkdir only completes directories

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:45:26 +0200

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On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:41:13 +0100 (BST), Reuben Thomas wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > Please be warned that mkdir will fail if trying to create a directory
> > called as an existing filename.
> 
> That is a great relief!

I was not joking: I've seen many people wondering why a directory wouldn't get
created if it had the same name of an existing filename (I have to admit --
they mostly were "from the dark side of the force"...). Glad to understand
you're not of those! ;)

Kindly,
David

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Message #43 received at 376433-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: 376433-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#376433: fixed in bash-completion 20080617

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:02:04 +0000

Source: bash-completion
Source-Version: 20080617

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bash-completion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bash-completion_20080617.dsc
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617.dsc
bash-completion_20080617.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617.tar.gz
bash-completion_20080617_all.deb
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 376433@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> (supplier of updated bash-completion package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:59:43 +0200
Source: bash-completion
Binary: bash-completion
Architecture: source all
Version: 20080617
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
Description: 
 bash-completion - programmable completion for the bash shell
Closes: 347316 365658 376433 394636 404976 409423 416655 424736 428641 432289 441017 455510 468254 470539 470742 472132 472940 474094 474517 474974 475242 478596 480879
Changes: 
 bash-completion (20080617) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ David Paleino ]
   * New upstream release
     - add more completions to aptitude (Closes: #432289)
     - fixed UTF-8 problem with _get_cword(), thanks to
       Andrei Paskevich (Closes: #472132)
     - fixed autoremove completion, thanks to Flavio Visentin
       (Closes: #474974)
     - cmf and CMF added to playmidi completion (Closes: #365658)
     - added rrdtool completion, thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #428641)
     - added OpenDocument completion for unzip/zipinfo (.od{f,g,p,s,t})
       (Closes: #472940)
     - fixed escaping problems with job control (i.e. disown, jobs, bg,
       fg): the argument is now surrounded by "" (Closes: #347316)
     - make mkdir complete also on filenames (Closes: #376433)
     - {bz,z}{cat,cmp,diff,egrep,fgrep,grep,less,more} now should complete
       on all filenames, not just compressed archives (just commented out)
       (Closes: #455510)
     - fixes Perl completion (Closes: #470742)
     - fixes get_cword -> _get_cword typo (Closes: #478596)
     - fixes _get_cword() function to properly handle filenames with
       whitespaces (Closes: #394636, #468254, #474094)
     - added .pdf.bz2 completion to evince (Closes: #424736)
     - added .svg completion to display (Closes: #441017)
     - added .m2ts completion to mplayer (Closes: #480879)
     - added extra/dh_bash-completion to ease future rewrite of bc.
   * debian/copyright - now in a fancier machine-parsable format.
   * debian/control:
     - added myself to Uploaders
     - debhelper Build-Depends updated to >= 6.
   * debian/watch:
     - improved current watch line regex
     - added (commented out) probable future watch line
   * debian/compat bumped to 6
   * debian/dirs, debian/install and debian/links added
   * debian/rules:
     - refactored to make use of debian/{dirs,install,links}
 .
   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * Applied patch to fix completion of umount command.
     (Closes: #470539)
   * Fixed the completion of Perl manpages.
     (Closes: #404976)
   * Added 'aif' to the filenames offed for completion for mplayer.
     (Closes: #474517)
   * Allow tsocks completion.
     (Closes: #409423)
   * Update mutt completion to handle local usernames.
     (Closes: #416655)
   * Update apt-get completion to include the flag "--no-install-recommends"
     (Closes: #475242)
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