Re: ls produces spurious message elements during tab completion

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Paul Coe wrote:

> when using a partially completed path after ls and playing with tab 
> completion to remind oneself of the next directory or file then the 
> following message typically appears, as in this example...
>
> prompt: ls -al /usr/lib/jvm/j
> There are 4 There are %d %s, list them anyway? [n/y] , list them anyway?
> [n/y] n
>
> This text duplication bug with the C code style format specifiers 
> showing up is obviously only a minor issue, but is certainly a symptom 
> of incomplete coding and may lead you to notice other problems.

Are you sure it's ls which is printing that message? Some shell 
tab-completion setups include calls to other processes, but as you've 
described file and directory listing is usually performed by the shell 
itself.

I'd expect the same problem to appear if you try other commands than ls.


Cheers,
Phil