[ale] Open Suse and the .inputrc issues

[JD]

On a 12.04 Ubuntu desktop box ...
$ bash -version
   GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
and on a 12.04 x64 VM server:
   GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

I looked at one of the bash-related patches - it was just a config file.

Are you fully patched?


On 08/24/2013 10:00 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> For whatever worth:
> 
> virtual at OpenSUSE-RPM:~> echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> virtual at OpenSUSE-RPM:~> bash -version
> GNU bash, version 4.1.10(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> 
> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> 
> -Narahari
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:53 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Those bugs were fixed in May of 2011.
>     Are people really running unpatched the last 2 years?
> 
>     THAT cannot be the issue here.
> 
>     I worry about being 3 months behind patching on a single system!
> 
>     Sorta related, I switched to using powershell as my default shell on Windows -
>     got tired of the crap interface from cmd.exe. In the 90s, I used 4Dos and 4NT to
>     work around command.com <http://command.com> and cmd.exe suckage. With
>     powershell, I almost don't
>     mind ... except for all the things MS implemented in Explorer that appear to be
>     part of the file system, but are not.  Backwards compatibility is a bitch.
> 
>     On 08/24/2013 08:28 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>     > It seems like this is a known bug and needs a patch installed.
>     > Googling for "opensuse fail tab completion" leads to many articles
>     > where this one mentions this (I think is the same) issue in
>     > particular:
>     https://build.opensuse.org/patchinfo/show?package=patchinfo.import4528&project=openSUSE%3A11.4%3AUpdate
>     >
>     > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >> Hmm. Bash has had tab completion for 10 years. Is it not on by default in
>     >> opensuse?
>     >>
>     >> On Aug 23, 2013 10:15 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com
>     <mailto:savithari at gmail.com>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> Tim:
>     >>>
>     >>> Dont decry cmd.exe just because it is from M$FT.  The tab completion
>     >>> feature of cmd is awesome and it is possible to do that in bash and I have
>     >>> done it in Arch Linux and it works.  It is having issues in OpenSuse 11.4
>     >>> hence I am trying to find out why it is behaving the way .inputrc vs
>     >>> /etc/inputrc.
>     >>>
>     >>> Any ideas any one.