[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#558127: Bug#558127: Bug#558127: bash-completion causes 'bash: [: too many arguments' messages

[David Paleino]

On Saturday 28 November 2009 02:16:21, Alexander Verbovetsky wrote:
> > And, could you please do (while the section below is still removed):
> > $ set -x
> > $ . /etc/bash_completion
> > and post everything here, including the error you're reporting?
> 
> attached

+++ '[' = GNU -o Linux = Cygwin ']'
bash: [: too many arguments

(and many similar ones)

That code in bash-completion really is:

[ $USERLAND = GNU -o $UNAME = Cygwin ]

so, obviously, $USERLAND is not being set there:

$ grep USERLAND bug558127-1.txt
$

Could you please grep it in /etc/bash_completion ?

Also, at the end, $USERLAND is unset together with other internal variables, 
but your log doesn't show that:

++ unset UNAME RELEASE default dirnames filenames have nospace bashdefault 
plusdirs

(the code instead says:

unset UNAME USERLAND default dirnames filenames have nospace bashdefault \
    plusdirs compopt

)

I believe you edited something, or the upgrade was not successful, thus you're 
mixing files from different releases of bash-completion.


Try:

# apt-get --reinstall install bash-completion

Please let me know,
David

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