bash completion leaves out various suffixes (xine, gzip)

[Roger Binns]

The .flv and .divx extensions will not be completed for xine. The .gz extension is not completed for gzip (eg using gzip -d < foo.gz | less)

It would also be preferable that if there are no matching files found for a completion, then all files get shown. If that behaviour was present then these issues wouldn't be so annoying.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in bash.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bash-completion - 20060301-3ubuntu1

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bash-completion (20060301-3ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Bug fix upload (LP: #194860)
   - Fixed completion of filenames with spaces
   - Fixed completion of hostnames with scp
   - Fixed completion of filenames with scp
   - Fixed parsing of SSH config files to parse Host and HostName lines
     correctly. Previously "HostName host" lines were parsed as two hosts:
     "Name" and "host".
  * More bugfixes:
   - Fix tar completion to handle "tar rf" the same as "tar cf" (LP: #94407)
   - Complete .m4v and .M4V for media players (LP: #115224)
   - Complete .divx and .flv for media players (LP: #127605)
   - Complete all files for "gzip ... <" (LP: #127605)
   - Allow whitespace in front of GlobalKnownHostsFile etc. (LP: #128866)
   - Complete compressed files for vim (LP: #149494)
   - Always use /etc/hosts and $HOSTFILE for host completion too (LP: #184175)
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Mika Fischer <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:46:17 +0100