[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#549284: matching fails to expand after a space in the path

Joseph Nahmias joe at nahmias.net
Fri Oct 2 02:57:07 UTC 2009


Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.0-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

As the subject says, bash-completion is failing to expand files or
directories after the path has an embedded space.

Here's a couple of simple test-cases that fail:

$ mkdir /tmp/foo\ bar
$ touch /tmp/foo\ bar/blah
$ cat /tmp/foo\ bar/b[TAB]
## Doesn't expand to /tmp/foo\ bar/blah !!
## NB: compgen doesn't have this problem...
$ compgen -f /tmp/foo\ bar/b
/tmp/foo bar/blah

$ mkdir -p /tmp/a\ b/cde
$ cd /tmp/a\ b/c[TAB]
## Doesn't expand to /tmp/a\ b/cde !!
## NB: compgen doesn't have this problem...
$ compgen -d /tmp/a\ b/c
/tmp/a b/cde


Thanks,
--Joe

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Debian Release: squeeze/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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