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Re: Incorrect path canonicalisation at autocompletion

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  Re: Incorrect path canonicalisation at autocompletion Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> - 2018-12-03 15:49 +0100

#14882 — Re: Incorrect path canonicalisation at autocompletion

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:33:48 -0500
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 12/1/18 3:12 PM, Mattias Andrée wrote:
> > Using Bash 4.4.023, type
> > 
> > 	cd
> > 	mkdir -p 1/2
> > 	cd 1/2
> > 	touch ../../3
> > 	ln -s ~ 4
> > 	touch 5
> > 	ls 4/../
> > 
> > without pressing enter at the last line,
> > instead press <tab> twice. 4/ and 5 will
> > be suggested, but if you press <enter>
> > you will see that it should suggest the> files in /home.  
> 
> It's not a bug. Bash maintains a logical view of the file system and the
> current directory for cd, pwd, and $PWD, as Posix specifies.  One of the
> consequences is that the pathname of the current directory depends on the
> path used to reach it, which affects how bash canonicalizes `..'. Bash is
> consistent in  its use of this logical view across shell features, which
> includes completion.
> 
> If you want to see a physical view of the file system, use
> `set -o physical'.
> 

Is there a way to only get physical view for
completion but logical view for cd, pwd, and $PWD?

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