Re: Bash tab completion shows same dir twice

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/23/24 2:36 PM, Saurabh T wrote:
> At some point during a session, tab completion starts showing the same dir 
> twice. It does not happen at the start of the session. This is on Centos 8 with 
> bash 4.4 (I have no way to upgrade the system). For example:
>
> > gdb ~/x/[tab]
> y/   y/
>
> Some observations:
> - When it happens, it affects the whole session (ie. all terminals and 
> instances of bash) and afaik the only recourse is to log out and back in. I 
> have tried and failed to figure out under what circumstances this starts to 
> happen

If you figure out a way to reproduce it, let me know. Of course, since
bash-4.4 is so old, it's likely that other changes have fixed this, if
there's a fix to be had.

> - There is no "other" y/, it's reporting the one in ~/x/ twice.
> - It seems to be dependent on the command, eg. may happen for gdb but not for 
> ls. But may not always be the same command.

If it's command-specific, it may be the result of something bash-completion
is doing.

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