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sr #109653: compgen -c echoes directory names supplied to it

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Submitted:  Tue 05 Mar 2019 07:57:11 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Works For Me
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Thu 21 Mar 2019 03:23:33 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

Ben Mundt <bmundt6>
Wed 20 Mar 2019 07:45:21 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It returns the same values that completion on a command word (a word that is potentially the first word of a simple command) would. That returns directories as partial matches so you can build a full pathname to a command iteratively.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Tue 05 Mar 2019 07:57:11 PM UTC, original submission:  

The following experiment results in an unexpected behavior:


compgen -c this  # prints nothing
mkdir this_is_not_a_command
compgen -c this  # still nothing
compgen -c this_is_not_a_command  # prints "this_is_not_a_command"


I can't find any documentation saying that a directory name should be considered a valid command name for completions; my assumption was that the output of 'compgen -c' should consist only of names for which 'type -t $name' returns a non-empty string.

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