#918430 find /tmp/ -path /tm<TAB>

Package:
bash-completion
Source:
bash-completion
Submitter:
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Date:
2019-11-03 19:27:11 UTC
Severity:
normal
#918430#5
Date:
2019-01-05 23:49:17 UTC
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No expansion is happening here:
$ find /tmp/ -path /tm<TAB>
Please make it happen. Thanks.
#918430#10
Date:
2019-10-26 11:16:07 UTC
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I'm trying to understand what's the use case you want to enable.
I'll describe several scenarios:

1.
Suppose you have the following directories:

  $ ls -d /tmp/find-*
  /tmp/find-bar  /tmp/find-foo

If I make find /tmp -path /tmp/fi<TAB> complete with directories, it
will complete to:

  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/fi<TAB>
  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/find-<CURSOR>

If you hit Enter after that, nothing will be found.

2.
Now suppose you only had one directory:

  $ ls -d /tmp/find-*
  /tmp/find-bar

Then the completion would look like:

  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/fi<TAB>
  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/find-bar/<CURSOR>

Again, nothing will be found, because of the trailing slash

3.
Take 2 as exemple, and remove the trailing slash

  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/find-bar<ENTER>

This works, but it's no different than:

  $ find /tmp/find-bar

which already works.

4.
Take 1 as example, but now, after completion, you add wildcard and quotes:

  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/fi<TAB>
  $ find /tmp -path /tmp/find-<CURSOR>
  $ find /tmp -path "/tmp/find-*"<ENTER>

Then it works, but it doesn't look like a good use case for completion.


What are you trying to do?


Cheers,
Gabriel
#918430#19
Date:
2019-10-26 14:39:02 UTC
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All I know is I can't get any expansion at all even here:
$ find . -path ./<TAB>

Why can't it ever expand anything at -path?

Is it because "the doctor thinks it is not good for me"?

Why not just let me expand filenames anyway?

Certainly there can be at least one use case.
#918430#24
Date:
2019-10-28 13:36:26 UTC
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Yes, I confirm that it doesn't.

I'm trying to understand what to expand, thus I need your help.

I don't know what this is supposed to mean.

Do you mean directories?  I don't think it would make sense to pass
filenames to the -path option in find.

Yes, that's what I'm trying to understand, so that I can implement it
accordingly.


Cheers,
Gabriel
#918430#29
Date:
2019-10-29 00:39:53 UTC
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GFTG> I'm trying to understand what to expand, thus I need your help.

Maybe in the meantime expand everything, as it is hard to figure out
anyway. At least for me too.
#918430#34
Date:
2019-11-03 19:19:51 UTC
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Forwarded upstream as https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/359