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bash - ignore dot files for autocompletion?

Subject: bash - ignore dot files for autocompletion?
From: me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:01:50 -0500
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On 11/09/2010 08:56 AM, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> In our source code, we have .svn directories (for Subversion) and when navigating thru a directory using the TAB key, the .svn directories also appear for autocompletion.  Is there a way to get bash to ignore them?  I tried set match-hidden-files off but that didn't seem to work.

Yes!

export FIGNORE=CVS:\~:.svn

(that will ignore both CVS and .svn directories when doing autocomplete)

Matt

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