Re: [Help-bash] Different completion behavior for ':' when there are other files or not

[Chet Ramey]

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On 5/9/13 1:01 AM, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-05-08 23:00, Peng Yu wrote:
>> In /tmp/a, there is only ':', but nothing else.
>>
>> /tmp/a$ mkdir :
>> /tmp/a$ cd :<TAB>
>>
>> The command completion of the above one becomes the following (which
>> is not correct).
>>
>> /tmp/a$ cd :\:/
>>
>> But if I create an addition file, then the command completion of 'cd
>> :<TAB>' will work correctly.
>> /tmp/a$ touch xxx.txt
> 
> I can reproduce this, with the caveat that in my case it *doesn't* fix itself
> when there are other files:

Your second case, after adding a second file, is not the same as the
original report.

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