bash - ignore dot files for autocompletion?

Tue Nov 9 09:01:50 EST 2010

On 11/09/2010 08:56 AM, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> In our source code, we have .svn directories (for Subversion) and when navigating thru a directory using the TAB key, the .svn directories also appear for autocompletion.  Is there a way to get bash to ignore them?  I tried set match-hidden-files off but that didn't seem to work.

Yes!

export FIGNORE=CVS:\~:.svn

(that will ignore both CVS and .svn directories when doing autocomplete)

Matt