Debian Bug report logs - #788346
bash-completion: sh completion only finds files ending in .sh

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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: sh completion only finds files ending in .sh

Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:40:46 +0100

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.1-4
Severity: normal

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/sh only finds files ending in .sh,
intentionally.

This is unfortunate: sh files often lack a suffix.

Completion for the “bash” command doesn’t have this limitation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers trusty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty'), (400, 'trusty-proposed'), (100, 'trusty-backports'), (90, 'wily-updates'), (90, 'wily')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.3-7ubuntu1.5
ii  dpkg  1.17.5ubuntu5.4

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 788346@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aditya Vaidya <kroq.gar78@gmail.com>

To: 788346@bugs.debian.org

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 00:35:24 -0700

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I am on Wheezy right now and can confirm this behavior (same version of the
package). "/bin/sh" links to "/bin/dash", which also completes non-.sh
files like bash. I think both "/bin/sh" and "/bin/dash" should have the
same completion behavior because they're the same executable.

I'd imagine the behavior is different because upstream did not want to
assume that "sh" links to "dash". This is a bit of a side question, but
would it be a good idea to make "sh" use the same completion as "dash" on
Debian?

Sincerely,
Aditya Vaidya

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