I have a folder structure that's in subversion.
There are a whole pile of top level directories that have only 1 sub folder. (eg src/com/example
). Normally when I want to cd into the example folder I can go cd src/<tab><tab>
since bash will fill in the folder names, since there is only one per folder it goes all the way.
However since that directory structure is now in svn, there's a .svn
directory in each one, and this means I can't cd as quickly.
If I try cd src/<tab>
it suggests .svn
and com
, as opposed to automatically filling in com
.
Is there some way to tell bash never to suggest cd'ing into a .svn folder, so that if I tab complete it won't include .svn
?
Best Answer
I can give you two options. Either of which can be placed in your
~/.bash_profile
.Bash uses a variable
$FIGNORE
which defines any suffixes that auto-completion will ignore. There seems to be a catch though, in that it prefixes any value with*.
. So a setting of:Will only ignore directories that have something before the period. And:
Will ignore
.svn
directories and anything else that ends in.svn
.Caveat emptor.
You can prevent all hidden files and directories from being included in auto-completion:
But you might not find this suitable.