Re: Bash var and file name completion

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From: Icarus Sparry
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <31DD1175.AB5@cray-systems.lu>,
Marius Groenendijk  <marius@cray-systems.lu> wrote:
>Bash does file and variable name completion.
>
>Is it possible to combine both (and how)? That is, if a string
>contains a variable, file name completion should still work.

It does

>For ex. $HOME/.bash<TAB> should complete to $HOME/.bash_history and
>$HOME/.bashrc

Filename completion only completes to uniq names.

>Of course asking $HO/.bash to complete into $HOME/.... is asking for
>too much.

$HO<tab>/.bash<tab>

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From: ccsis@bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry)
Subject: Re: Bash var and file name completion
Date: 1996/07/08
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