Hi,
I made a ‘ln -s /net/server/home /home’ on a target.
in bash, hitting TAB after ‘/h’, just give ‘/home’, I need a second TAB
to get ‘/home/’ which is not the case on a real ‘/home’.
Do you know why?
Alain.
Alain Bonnefoy <alain.bonnefoy@icbt.com> wrote:
Hi,
I made a ‘ln -s /net/server/home /home’ on a target.
in bash, hitting TAB after ‘/h’, just give ‘/home’, I need a second TAB
to get ‘/home/’ which is not the case on a real ‘/home’.
Did you try the same thing on other OSes? I’d expect the same
behaviour.
Do you know why?
Because a symlink is not a directory. If you do an “ls -F /”, ls
will show it as “home@” because it is a symlink, not “home/” because
it isn’t a directory.
So, I’d expect bash evaluates the file type, finds it a symlink,
and doesn’t put the / on it, then when you hit tab again, it
follows the symlink to find a directory on the other side.
-David
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