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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Subject: Re: FIGNORE not effective if it contains a full filename
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 03:33:49PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/19/20 3:15 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > Bash Version: 5.0
> > Patch Level: 18
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > Description:
> >         If FIGNORE contains the complete filename of a file, tab
> >         completion will not ignore it.
> 
> FIGNORE is a list of suffixes, and requires at least one character before
> the suffix when matching.

I'm wondering if either that might be changeable or there could be a way
to specify full filenames to get the same treatment. I'd like to ignore
specific filenames, rather than all filenames ending in a suffix.  Or
perhaps there could be an option that does a regex match (allowing
things like ^ and $)?