Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

Hello,
Some days ago I noticed that tab-completion doesn't work any more on files and directories that contain spaces. I'm pretty sure that it has. I'm using bash (3.1.17-1). I don't know when this happened, but my suspicion is that it is related to the upgrade to readline 5.2. Has anyone else experienced this? (Maybe someone can be a bit more specific than I )
Hm, here are some other perhaps interesting settings on my system:
LOCALE="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
KEYMAP="sv-latin1.map.gz"
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-16.psfu.gz"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-1"
Regards

Romashka wrote:Probably due to upgrade of readline while bash was not recompiled.
In bug report somebody mentioned that he recompiled bash against current readline without success in resolving the issue (so did slubman a moment ago). I think that's rather bash itself or bash/readline (not likely since new bash works properly) problem.
Anyway I'm stopping before I'll turn this thread into bug system I'm going to watch bug reports since now without "bugging" you (a insectorium in one phrase )
Thanks a lot for your replies and interest!

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# svn completion
have svn &&
_svn()
local cur prev commands options command
COMPREPLY=()
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
commands='add blame praise annotate ann cat checkout co cleanup commit \
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propdel pdel pd propedit pedit pe propget pget pg \
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if [[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]] ; then
if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '--version' -- $cur ) )
else
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$commands" -- $cur ) )
fi
else
prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}
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--config-dir)
_filedir -d
return 0;
-@(F|-file|-targets))
_filedir
return 0;
--encoding)
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'$( iconv --list | sed -e "s@//@@;" )' \
-- "$cur" ) )
return 0;
--@(editor|diff|diff3)-cmd)
COMP_WORDS=(COMP_WORDS[0] $cur)
COMP_CWORD=1
_command
return 0;
esac
command=${COMP_WORDS[1]}
if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
# possible options for the command
case $command in
add)
options='--auto-props --no-auto-props \
--force --targets --no-ignore \
--non-recursive -N -q --quiet'
@(blame|annotate|ann|praise))
options='-r --revisions --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive -v \
--verbose --incremental --xml'
cat)
options='-r --revision --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(checkout|co))
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--non-recursive --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive \
--ignore-externals'
cleanup)
options='--diff3-cmd'
@(commit|ci))
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--encoding --force-log -q \
--quiet --non-recursive -N \
--targets --editor-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive --no-unlock'
@(copy|cp))
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--encoding --force-log -r \
--revision -q --quiet \
--editor-cmd -username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(delete|del|remove|rm))
options='--force -m --message -F \
--file --encoding --force-log \
-q --quiet --targets \
--editor-cmd -username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(diff|di))
options='-r --revision -x --extensions \
--diff-cmd --no-diff-deleted \
-N --non-recursive --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive --force \
--old --new --notice-ancestry'
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--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive -N \
--non-recursive --force \
--native-eol --ignore-externals'
import)
options='--auto-props --no-auto-props \
-m --message -F --file \
--encoding --force-log -q \
--quiet --non-recursive \
--no-ignore --editor-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
info)
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--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive -r \
--revision --xml --targets \
-R --recursive --incremental'
@(list|ls))
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--recursive --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive \
--incremental --xml'
lock)
options='-m --message -F --file \
--encoding --force-log \
--targets --force --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
log)
options='-r --revision -v --verbose \
--targets --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive \
--stop-on-copy --incremental \
--xml -q --quiet --limit'
merge)
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--non-recursive -q --quiet \
--force --dry-run --diff3-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive \
--ignore-ancestry'
mkdir)
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--encoding --force-log -q \
--quiet --editor-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(move|mv|rename|ren))
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--encoding --force-log -r \
--revision -q --quiet \
--force --editor-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(propdel|pdel|pd))
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--revision --revprop \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(propedit|pedit|pe))
options='-r --revision --revprop \
--encoding --editor-cmd \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive --force'
@(propget|pget|pg))
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--revprop --strict --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(proplist|plist|pl))
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-r --revision --revprop -q \
--quiet --username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(propset|pset|ps))
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--targets -R --recursive \
--revprop --encoding \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive -r \
--revision --force'
resolved)
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--quiet'
revert)
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--quiet'
@(status|stat|st))
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--verbose -N --non-recursive \
-q --quiet --username \
--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive --no-ignore \
--ignore-externals \
--incremental --xml'
@(switch|sw))
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--non-recursive -q --quiet \
--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive --diff3-cmd'
unlock)
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--password --no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive'
@(update|up))
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--username --password \
--no-auth-cache \
--non-interactive \
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if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
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create)
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--fs-type'
deltify)
options='-r --revision -q --quiet'
dump)
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hotcopy)
options='--clean-logs'
load)
options='--ignore-uuid --force-uuid \
--parent-dir -q --quiet \
--use-pre-commit-hook \
--use-post-commit-hook'
rmtxns)
options='-q --quiet'
setlog)
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esac
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COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$options" -- $cur ) )
else
if [[ "$command" == @(help|h|\?) ]]; then
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$commands" -- $cur ) )
else
_filedir
fi
fi
fi
return 0
complete -F _svnadmin $default svnadmin
_svnlook()
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COMPREPLY=()
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
commands='author cat changed date diff dirs-changed help ? h history \
info lock log propget pget pg proplist plist pl tree uuid \
youngest'
if [[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]] ; then
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COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '--version' -- $cur ) )
else
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$commands" -- $cur ) )
fi
else
command=${COMP_WORDS[1]}
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case $command in
@(author|cat|date|dirs-changed|info|log))
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--transaction'
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options='-r --revision -t \
--transaction --copy-info'
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--transaction \
--no-diff-deleted \
--no-diff-added \
--diff-copy-from'
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tree)
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if [[ "$command" == @(help|h|\?) ]]; then
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_filedir
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Menu tabs disappear completely after login and appears if only i press on item node at hire level

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I myself just uses the standard colors and don't change them from default, but I do get the same colors for both ls and completion with this in .zshrc:
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I'm currently studying the Peachpit book on OSX Support Essentials and have just arrived at the section concerning tab completion in the Terminal. According to the book, if I start from my home folder, then type P, and then press the Tab key, I should get all the choices available to me within the home folder that start with P. I tried this and it worked for me once. Now, however, after restarting, if I do the same thing, I get only one choice - PPCExplain, which is located in Developer/usr/bin/, and not in my home directory. Thinking a preferences must have gotten screwed up, I deleted the preferences for the Terminal, and restarted - still I get this one result and have no explanation of why this command worked as the book said it would and now it doesn't. I'm quite positive I'm starting from my user folder. Any idea what's going on here? Thanks.

Your terminal is working correctly. In unix-based systems, tab completion is situation-dependent, and for the most part is relative to the root of the drive. If you open a terminal and type P<tab> it will list all commands that are included in your $PATH variable. The $PATH contains file locations (starting from the drive's root) for all the commonly used utilities. To see what the $PATH contains, type the following command in the terminal:
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Press tab twice to show the available commands or paths. If you want to change your current directory to a new folder, type "cd" before the full file path, as such:
cd /Users/username/Desktop
Unix bases everything from the root of the drive as I explained above. However, there are some ways to simplify commands instead of having to type the whole command path before the command itself, or to target a specific file or folder without having to enter the path for the file/folder. These are the period, and the tilde keys: ".", "..", "~".
To reference the current folder, use the ".", and to reference the parent folder type "..". To reference the user home folder type "~". Other than these options, everything is assumed to be referenced from the root of the drive "/".
As such, you can change to your home folder these ways:
cd ~
cd /Users/username
These commands perform the same function. The tilde (~) just indicates the current user's home folder, so you dont have to always enter "/Users/username" whenever you want to target something in your home folder.
Lets take your home folder for example. I'll assume your home's name is "jcoyle".
If you want to reference your desktop, you are currently trying to do it by pressing "D" and the pressing tab. This wont work. To reference your desktop you'll need to start at the root, or at some of the shortcuts provided by Unix (namely the tilde):
/Users/jcoyle/Desktop (references from the full path)
~/Desktop (references from the user's home folder)
Continue to press tab to see all the available targets in the desktop folder, and then enter part of the name of one of them and tab-complete it. You can list contents of folders this way.
Getting back to the periods ("." and ".."), you can reference things relative to your current position. For instance, if you are currently in your Desktop folder, you can change back to your home folder by pressing "cd .." to go up one level. From there you can "cd" into your Movies folder, for example. Alternatively, if you are in your "Desktop" folder you can get to your "Movies" folder directly by typing "cd ../Movies". This tells the computer to go up one level and then target the "Movies" folder that should be there.
Targeting files and folders like this in the Terminal, however, will not do anything unless the final targeted file is an executable binary file (such as a program). You must perform an action (via a program, ie: one of the commands like "cd") on the referenced path in order to do anything.
Think about wanting to open TextEdit. You can open it by entering this command:
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
If you are in the "Applications" directory, you can type the command above, or type:
./TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
The period references the current directory ("Applications") and then continues the command from there.
Say you want to open a file on your desktop called "file.txt" in TextEdit. With the TextEdit program, if you enter the full path of a target file after the command to open the program then the program will try to open that file. For instance, this full command will open the file "file.txt" in the TextEdit program:
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /Users/jcoyle/Desktop/file.txt
Alternatively, this will work:
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit ~/Desktop/file.txt
(The tilde references the home folder)
If you are currently in the Applications folder, then this command will also do the same thing:
./TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit ~/Desktop/file.txt
(The period references the Applications folder itself, so you dont have to type the path before where you currently are located)
Lastly, if you are in the Applications folder, then this command will also work:
../Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit ~/Desktop/file.txt
(the double period references the folder above where you are. In this case it happens to be the root "/" folder, so the full path ends up being what's entered. However, imagine the TextEdit application is in your Desktop folder. In that case if you wanted to open the application (forget about opening files with it for now) you could type these commands (assuming you have just opened the terminal and are currently in your home folder):
/Users/jcoyle/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
./Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
~/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit (in this case the tilde is redundant, since you are already at your home folder)
../jcoyle/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
../../Users/jcoyle/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
The last command invokes two instances of "..", which bring you back two folder levels. In this case, the first would move your reference from "jcoyle" up to the "Users" directory, and from there the second ".." would move you up to the root of the drive "/".
I hope this long-winded explanation clarifies how paths work in Unix-based systems. Just that by default everything is assumed to be referenced from root, and the included file paths in the $PATH variable is why you see the files from those folders when you just press a letter and tab-complete it.
It's very logical, but it can be a bit funky to wrap your head around.

Using Tab Completion

I am just starting to work with command-line navigation in terminal. They say "tab completion" is a absolute time-saving feature.
It worked for me the first time, but now it doesn't. At my home folder, I enter cd, then p and press the Tab key. After pressing the tab key a second time, it should display all choices beginning with p. Nothing happens. Any ideas?

baltwo wrote:
Hmmm! I have a simple bash shell set up and all I get is the alert sound. Maybe you're using another shell or have something else set that accounts for the discrepancy.
Nope. I'm using the system default bash. If I try to complete something that isn't there, such as "cd p", I get an alert. If I try something that has possible completions, like "cd P", I get a list of the directories.

Link to directories containing index.htm

I've got a question that I've been trying to figure out for
some time. I'm fairly well versed with dreamweaver, but some of the
server stuff is a bit hazy to me.
Question:
Within dreamweaver, if I link to a subdirectory that has an
index.htm page in it, the url explicity shows the page name (i.e.
mysite.com/downloads/index.htm). I want to make the links look like
this: mysite.com/downloads/
Now, while I know that this kind of link works fine once the
site is on the server, when I navigate pages on my local copy of
the site, the link simply opens the directory in an explorer
window.
So, without a solution, I either have to choose: working on a
broken site locally that will work fine on the server, or just
explicitly link to the htm files in each directory - I've chosen
the latter, but it's BUGGING me!
Extra Info:
I currently edit all my websites locally with dreamweaver and
then selectively upload files with another ftp client. My reason is
that many of these websites that I work on are live and I don't
want to be uploading files that I've just modified, but have not
tested, b/c I might have accidentally fudged something.
So, how can I configure my environment such that all links to
directories containing index.htm file, open the file correctly both
online and locally.

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:39:29 +0000 (UTC), "djkha0s"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I've got a question that I've been trying to figure out
for some time. I'm
>fairly well versed with dreamweaver, but some of the
server stuff is a bit hazy
>to me.
>
> Question:
> Within dreamweaver, if I link to a subdirectory that has
an index.htm page in
>it, the url explicity shows the page name (i.e.
>mysite.com/downloads/index.htm). I want to make the links
look like this:
>mysite.com/downloads/ Now, while I know that this kind of
link works fine
>once the site is on the server, when I navigate my local
copy of the site, the
>link simply opens the directory in an explorer window.
>
> So, without a solution, I either have to chose working
on a broken site
>locally that will work fine on the server, or just
explicitly link to the htm
>files in each directory - I've chosen the latter, but
it's BUGGING me!
>
> Extra Info:
> I currently edit all my websites locally with
dreamweaver and then selectively
>upload files with another ftp client. My reason is that
many of these websites
>that I work on are live and I don't want to be uploading
files that I've just
>modified, but have not tested, b/c I might have
accidentally fudged something.
>
> So, how can I configure my environment such that all
links to directories
>containing index.htm file, open the file correctly both
online and locally.
>
>
As to why Explorer is opening, I haven't a clue, but I also
oftenwant
to link to /subfolder/index.htm. I point to the file in DW,
then strip
out the filename, leaving /subfolder/.

Set sales order status is complete after Billing document created

Hi experts:
Current
Complete rule of item category 'TAN' is space.
The Status will be set complete after Delivery document is created.
I want to change the rule to
the status will be set complete after billing document is created.
Han can I do it ??

Go to VOV7, select the item category and execute. There maintain "B" against the field "Completion Rule"
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

Hyperlinks in word containing spaces are cut off in pdf generation

We are using a mix of MS Word 2003, 2007 and 2010. All are experiencing the same problem when using Adobe products (Abobe Acrobat Pro 9, Adobe X, Adobe Elements) for the generation of a pdf document with respect to hyperlinks.
When we have hyperlinks containing "spaces" they will get cut off in the resulting pdf document.
Examples have formatting like this in Word
http://team.eu.enet/XXX/Master data forms/Master Data Project.xls
When we convert this in Adobe it cuts off the link after encountering the first space, like this
http://team.eu.enet/XXX/Master (on the face of it the whole line looks like the one above, but the hyperlink shown when hovering over it has been cut like shown)
In some cases the spaces are replaced with %20 (IE for example replaces spaces with these characters automatically). For those cases the conversion works just fine, and the whole line is maintained as a hyperlink also in the pdf
http://team.eu.enet/XXX/Master%20data%20forms/Master%20Data%20Project.xls (again, the line does not look like this in the pdf, but the link when hovering over it does)
When we use the Save as function in Word 2007/2010 this replacement is done automatically. the links in the "word generated pdf" are not containing spaces,
Is there any way to get this replacement done automatically when converting hyperlinks from Word to PDF? Repairing the links afterwards (which is possible, I know) is not a viable option when you have many such links in a word file.

Sort answer: Use proper syntax and do not use the "space" character in any URL.
"20" is hex for the space character (which is a "reserved" character in that it may have special meaning).
If used out of context being "reserved" applications have to make something of a guess.
Success is the %20. Sometimes success is not had.
So, again, proper syntax - no "space" character in a URL (use the underscore).
Some references for a starting point.
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
Be well...

Spool filename that contains spaces

Hi Folks,
Does anyone know a technique for creating spool files that
contain spaces in the path name?
I have a script that I want to pass in a directory path as a
parameter. The script then uses this directory as the path for
dynamically created scripts which are run later in the main
script, but SQL*Plus won't allow spaces in the path name.
e.g.
myScript.sql
DEFINE P_DIR = '&1'
SPOOL &P_DIR.script1.sql
-- Dynamic SQL statements
SPOOL OFF
@&P_DIR.script1.sql
Called by plus80 @myScript 'C:\Documents and Setting\andy\'
I've tried various combinations of single and double quotes
around the variable references and even tried a HOST cd &P_DIR
command, all to no avail. I'm sure I've seen this done
somewhere before.
BTW Using a batch file is not a possible solution :(
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards
Andy

This is logged as a SQL*Plus bug, #898051. It used to work in SQL*Plus 3.
If you have access to MetaLink http://metalink.oracle.com/ you can view the complete text of the bug.
-- CJ

Flexunit 4.1 beta 1 ant task fails if SDK or project dir contains spaces

downloaded FlexUnit 4.1 beta 1 for its directory scanning and test loading support. found a problem - if either the SDK dir (e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\sdks\4.0.0) or the project dir (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\flexuser\My Documents\mike\Adobe Flash Builder 4\AntFlexUnit4.1betaSampleCIProject) contain spaces, the flexunit ant task will fail, as the following output indicates:
<snip>
[flexunit] '+flexlib'
[flexunit] 'C:\Program'
[flexunit] 'Files\Adobe\Adobe'
[flexunit] 'Flash'
[flexunit] 'Builder'
[flexunit] '4\sdks\4.0.0\frameworks'
[flexunit] '-output'
[flexunit] 'C:\Documents'
[flexunit] 'and'
[flexunit] 'Settings\flexuser\My'
[flexunit] 'Documents\mike\Adobe'
[flexunit] 'Flash'
[flexunit] 'Builder'
[flexunit] '4\AntFlexUnit4.1betaSampleCIProject\target\bin\TestRunner.swf'
<snip>
BUILD FAILED
C:\Documents and Settings\flexuser\My Documents\mike\Adobe Flash Builder 4\AntFlex
Unit4.1betaSampleCIProject\build.xml:72: Compilation failed:
command line: Error: default arguments may not be interspersed with other options
everything worked fine if i relocated both the SDK and project dir. unfortunately most of our developers use SDK and project directories with spaces.
what's the ETA for beta 2 ;-) ? anxious to integrate this excellent new feature once the spacing problem is resolved.
thanks.
-mike

@mike - Ok I've updated my fork @ http://github.com/blegros/flexunit with the fix. If you don't want to build from source, you can download the flexunit.zip file from my fork and just pull the Ant task out to use temporarily. You can find the artifact from my fork's build @ http://flexunit.digitalprimates.net:8080/view/Contributors/job/blegros/lastSuccessfulBuild /artifact/flexunit.zip.
Let me know if this works out for you.
-Brian

Hierarchy function could not complete coz of missing space

Hi All,
Iam having a issue "<b>Hierarchy function could not complete because of missing space</b>" when iam expanding a hierarchy( with 37k lines) in report, rest of the hierarchies( with 34k, 36k lines) are fine.
Even that hierarchy in question working fine after i refresh query, its giving that problem after few refreshes again.
Can any body please advice me why this one happening like this.
Regards
Robyn.

Hi,
A couple of things I would check here :
Try the same thing using the web and see if the behaviour is the same. This is to elimate that the excel is causing the problem. Second try to observe the system activity in both cases, when its working fine and the other when its not refreshing properly. Hierarchies do tend to take time in reporting depending on the data.
Also check the cache settings and temp table space. You can work with basis to see if the temp table space needs to be extended.
In addition, have multiple users try running the report and check how the hierarchy is behaving.
Cheers,
Kedar

[SOLVED]mplayer tab completion with *.divx files

Hi,
I have some *.divx files. mplayer plays them fine, but the tab completion in bash doesn't work. So I'll either have to type the filename or do something like vim <filename>, go back and write mplayer instead of vim. That's getting pretty annoying, so I hope someone can help me
Last edited by rine (2008-09-17 00:02:47)

I assume you use the bash_completition script.
The easy way is to rename the file to the actual container (avi, mkv, mp4, wmv, whatever)
The hard way is to patch bash_completition:
you should add the extensions you like to line 5895: for example
_filedir '@(mp?(e)g|MP?(E)G|wm[av]|WM[AV]|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|vob|VOB|bin|BIN|dat|DAT|vcd|VCD|ps|PS|pes|PES|fli|FLI|viv|VIV|rm?(j)|RM?(J)|ra?(m)|RA?(M)|yuv|YUV|mov|MOV|qt|QT|mp[34]|MP[34]|og[gm]|OG[GM]|wav|WAV|dump|DUMP|mkv|MKV|m4a|M4A|aac|AAC|m2v|M2V|dv|DV|rmvb|RMVB|mid|MID|ts|TS|3gp|mpc|MPC|flac|FLAC|divx)'

After hitting the space bar in Finder no Quicklook

On my Imac with OS 10.6.8 installed Quicklook stopped working completely. After hitting the space bar in Finder nothing happens at all. What could cause that problem?

Upgrading will NOT fix a problem. That needs to be resolved first to the point you have a stable system. I'd recommend doing a SMC and PRAM reset, if it doesn't work the first time you may have to do it 2-3x. Also restart in Safe Mode (hold down the shift key when you hear the startup gong and continue holding it until the progress bar appears).
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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