"search --path=directory/" is lame(-ish)

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Wed Oct 29 10:14:01 PDT 2014


On Wed, Oct 29 2014, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:

> Adding a terminal slash to a directory name when using --path causes the
> search to fail. Removing the terminal slash produces results.
>
> Given that many shells will add the terminal slash during completion,
> this is lame(-ish).

Except zsh(1) which adds it, but when pressing enter to complete command
execution, the trailing slash is removed -- at least in my configuration...

... Nevertheless, I agree that the "feature" we have is at least a bit lame ;D

Tomi


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