[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#519238: Bug#519238: bash-completion: syntax error in /etc/bash_completion

[David Paleino]

Ciao Norbert,

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:47:58 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705
> Severity: normal
> 
> /etc/bash_completion: line 273: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
> /etc/bash_completion: line 273: `       done < <( compgen -d --
> "$(quote_readline "$cur")" )'

Uhm.
How do you call bash? If you call it as /bin/sh, that may be the cause: /bin/sh
makes bash POSIX-compliant, thus disabling some features.

Please grep /etc/passwd for your username, and check that the shell
is /bin/bash, not /bin/sh (and yes, we should do some more checking there, but I
don't know whether it's possible or not -- I believe yes though, but I'm just
back from my uni classes and I don't really have all bash builtins in my
brain :P)

If that fixes it for you, I'll close the bug.

Ciao,
David

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