this time, it appears that the latest version of bash, 2.05b, that ships with redhat 8.0, does not support (or i can’t get it to support,) the directory-style completions that i am used to. eg, if i am in my home directory and want to run src/mijit/bin/program.sh, i should be able to:

cd
./sr[TAB]

and have it complete the phrase with “src/” – complete with forward slash and not advance to the next word, so i can auto-complete down through directories. this does not work in bash 2.05b but it works in 2.05a. this appears to actually be a “bug fix” since it is listed in 2.05b’s CHANGES document. i like the old behavior better. i should come up with a solution for them before bugging them.

well, no, i just bugged them anyway, saying i failed to see how this was a bug fix. i like the old behavior – give it back! give me an option to keep it!

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