[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#511151: Autocomplete of fileames with backquote expansion leaves garbage

[James Westby]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: minor

Hi,

In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/254426
"dermoth" reported the following.

"
With Bash programable autocomplete (/etc/bash_completion), commands
within backquotes containing a space doesn't get autocompleted properly:

$ touch ~/some_file_`date -I`.txt
$ ls ~/some_file_`date -I`.txt
/home/gaby/some_file_2008-08-03.txt

So far this works, but if I press the <TAB> key at the end of the
command:
$ ls ~/some_file`date /home/gaby/some_file_2008-08-03.txt

The autocompletion doesn't overwrite the whole argument and leaves
"~/some_file`date " in front of it.
"

Confirmed on sid.

Note that you have to have "~" or a directory portion, the bug
doesn't happen if you complete a filename in cwd.

Thanks,

James