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From: Stanley Lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] naming conventions
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:16:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimYWnwt01Ch530xDUH3Ixni2_AC8lgW43yRXkTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51a0fc4b4bb26e2894cc078f681b2bd2@swcp.com>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:
>
>> your shell is broken.  [0-9] are perfectly valid anywhere in a unix file
>> name.
>
> does bash completion work for you on *anything*?  Or does it get confused
> thinking that you are specifying a previous command (!### in the history)?
> Yes, a file/script named [0-9]* is valid, but still breaks things.  Maybe
> there is some trick to get around it that I do not knwo about, but the big
> issues where those that the editor raised.
>
>  EBo --

For what it's worth, ksh on OpenBSD handles completion on 9* files just fine.

-sl



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-14 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14  8:29 EBo
2010-06-14  9:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-06-14 13:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-14 13:47   ` EBo
2010-06-14 15:16     ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2010-06-14 15:19     ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-14 15:35     ` Nick LaForge
2010-06-14 21:10       ` hiro
2010-06-14 21:24         ` EBo
2010-06-14 21:32           ` erik quanstrom

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