Hi All. Recently I bought a new laptop for usability purpose of my wife I created some folders by Name C:\ D:\ E:\ and mounted 3 partitions (as she is a win user), lately I have observed if hit tab againt these 3 dir , it does not exposes files/dir which is contained. Which generally doesnot happens. Log Snippet =========== root@jarvis:~# uname -a Linux jarvis 5.5.0-050500-generic #202001262030 SMP Mon Jan 27 01:33:36 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@jarvis:~# root@jarvis:~# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="19.10 (Eoan Ermine)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 19.10" VERSION_ID="19.10" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=eoan UBUNTU_CODENAME=eoan When I normally hit tab against any dir it exposes files/dir ============================================================= root@jarvis:~# cd / bin/ cdrom/ etc/ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ mnt/ proc/ run/ srv/ tmp/ var/ boot/ dev/ home/ lib32/ libx32/ media/ opt/ root/ sbin/ sys/ usr/ root@jarvis:~# But when I try to hit tab against any dir ending with :\ ============================================================== root@jarvis:/home/abhishek/Desktop# ls 'C:\' 'D:\' 'E:\' abhishek@jarvis:~/Desktop$ cd 'C:\'^C =========>does not recommends any thing abhishek@jarvis:~/Desktop$ cd C:\\ =========>does not recommends any thing
This has nothing to do with ext4, but rather "bash-completion". I suspect that including "\" into the directory name will make a lot of tools unhappy, so it would be better to name these directories just "C:", "D:", "E:", since you will need to use "/" as the pathname separator anyway, and "C:\/dir/file" is going to get old quickly.