[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#742345: bash-completion: Fails to autocomplete on filenames starting with a square bracket

[Neilvert Noval]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
        On bash, I cannot autocomplete files starting with square brackets '['. 
        Example, if I have a file [aText].txt, and I want to do:
            $> cat [<tab>
        The file won't autocomplete.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
        I usually just type the whole file just to have a workaround. But it would be tiresome for long filenames.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
        Filenames starting with square brackets can't autocomplete. 
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
        Filenames starting with square brackets should autocomplete when the TAB key is pressed.
        

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.3-2
ii  dpkg  1.17.6

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