zip files should be completion candidates for jar.

[Brett Sealey]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

The jar utility works with zip files, so they should be candidates for completion.

Ubuntu 8.04.1

Here is a patch against 20060301-3ubuntu3 that enables it:

 diff -u bash_completion.orig bash_completion
--- bash_completion.orig 2008-04-15 02:45:23.000000000 +0100
+++ bash_completion 2008-07-13 10:13:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -2985,7 +2985,7 @@
    _filedir
    ;;
   *f)
- _filedir '?(e|j|w)ar'
+ _filedir '?([ejw]ar|zip|[EJW]AR|ZIP)'
    ;;
   *)
    _filedir

[YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you.

I have tried to reproduce it in my 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and i can't.

My test case:
$ touch test.zip
$ touch test.jar
$ jar t test.[TAB]
test.jar test.zip # the 2 files are proposed like expected.

I have also edited my /etc/bash_completion file to see what i have in the _jar spécifications and i can't see difference with the last hardy version.

I mark this bug as invalid for now beacause i can't reproduce it and the auto completion work like expected in the latest ubuntu version. Feel free to provide us more information (like your java virtual machine, java path, ...) to help us figure why you have this issue, and change back the status to incomplete.

[YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh)]

Sorry, i miss some details when i make my first tests.

USE CASE : "jar -f FILENAME"
$ touch test.zip #should be proposed
$ touch test.jar #should be proposed
$ touch test.txt #shouldn't be proposed
$ jar -f test.[TAB]
test.jar # Only the .jar file is proposed.

RESULT EXPECTED
test.jar test.zip

Your patch should work, but there is another problem i go to describe on another bug.

Tanks

[Brett Sealey (bretts)]

Hi, thanks for picking up on this. Glad you were able to reproduce the
bug. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

Brett

On 22 Mar 2009, at 10:56, YoBoY <email address hidden> wrote:

> Sorry, i miss some details when i make my first tests.
>
> USE CASE : "jar -f FILENAME"
> $ touch test.zip #should be proposed
> $ touch test.jar #should be proposed
> $ touch test.txt #shouldn't be proposed
> $ jar -f test.[TAB]
> test.jar # Only the .jar file is proposed.
>
> RESULT EXPECTED
> test.jar test.zip
>
> Your patch should work, but there is another problem i go to
> describe on
> another bug.
>
> Tanks
>
> ** Changed in: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
> Status: Invalid => Confirmed
>
> --
> zip files should be completion candidates for jar.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248057
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in bash-completion 1:1.0-1, now in karmic:

    - added .zip to jar completions (Closes: #521041)