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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: possible bug on readline
From:       DennisW <dennistwilliamson () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-18 19:23:29
Message-ID: 079ab44a-4f66-4b7b-bd97-38085d2b8115 () m16g2000yqc ! googlegroups ! com
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On Jan 18, 11:01=A0am, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 1/18/10 12:40 AM, Samus_ wrote:
>
> > hello, =A0I had this on my shell: fgrep "$(nl_join " templates/
> > advertiser/campaign* and when tried to perform readline's glob-expand-
> > word I got some parse errors, I'm not sure if it is a bug or the
> > expected behaviour because the line isn't functional code however I'm
> > not sure if that should affect the expansion.
>
> This is the behavior of the completion function you have installed for
> "fgrep". =A0Without any completions installed, bash-4.1 behaves as you
> would expect.
>
> > ps: bash at gnu.org rejected my email.
>
> That's not a valid email address.
>
> Chet
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrat=
es
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU =A0 =A0c...@case.edu =A0 =A0http://cnswww.cns.cwru.=
edu/~chet/

But it's not fgrep's completion function if there's nothing on the
command line but:

"$("

(including quotes).

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