Ignore types of files when you tab from the command line

Question

One of the nice features of vim is that you can ask it to ignore certain types of files when you hit tab by using the following command in vimrc:

set wildignore+=*.hi,*.pyc,*.o

Is there a similar setting for bash so I can ignore types of files when I tab in the command line?

Answer 1

The bash variable you are looking for is FIGNORE, for your example

export FIGNORE=$FIGNORE:.hi:.pyc:.o

I personally still cannot live without

export FIGNORE=$FIGNORE:CVS