[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#638227: Bug#638227: bash-completion: fails to escape or quote filenames with shell metacharacters in their names

Fri Aug 19 08:56:04 UTC 2011

On 08/17/2011 11:24 PM, Brian Minton wrote:

> I have a file with shell metacharacters such as "&" and "?" in the name.
> Formerly, bash-completion would escape or quote the file name, but now
> the entire file name with no escaping or quoting is placed on the
> command line.  This causes the command line to be invalid, or not the
> desired action. 

Maybe a duplicate of #616018?