I have a issue with case sensitive directory listing in my bash. for example $ touch nohupa nohuPb $ ls nohup* nohupa nohuPb However I do expect it only list nohupa not nohuPb. because nohuP...

What I want is a function I can call from a program so it completes the way bash would given a commandline and a location where TAB was pressed. . /etc/bash_completion generate_completions "comman...

The code for git bash completion, specifically the function __gitcomp, uses parameter expansions like "${1-}". This appears to be similar to "$1". What is the difference? Also: where is this docum...

at the bash prompt I can perform this copy cp file.txt test1.txt but if I try to copy file.txt to several files like so cp file.txt test{2..4}.txt I get error cp: target `test4.txt' is no...

I'm taking a stab at writing a bash completion for the first time, and I'm a bit confused about about the two ways of dereferencing bash arrays (${array[@]} and ${array[*]}). Here's the relevant ch...