Debian Bug report logs - #239755
bash: Bug in commandline completion

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ajay Shah <ajayshah@mayin.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash: Bug in commandline completion

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:08:27 +0530

Package: bash
Version: 2.05b-14
Severity: normal

I wanted to say:

$ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh h*`

I went till the 2nd last letter "h" of the last backquotes and did tab
tab.
At that point, this happens:

$ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh hused: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command

Each time I press tab, one more of these error messages is emitted.

It may be useful for you to know that :

$ ls
belllabs.ps       huangkhanna2.pdf  outsourcing.pdf  syria.ps
huangkhanna1.pdf  huangkhanna3.pdf  outsourcing.ps   wrongstuff.ps

Hope this helps,

     -ans.

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.17
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                3.0.13         Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand

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Ajay Shah                                                   Consultant
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Message #10 received at 239755@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>

To: Ajay Shah <ajayshah@mayin.org>, 239755@bugs.debian.org

Cc: ian@caliban.org

Subject: Re: Bug#239755: bash: Bug in commandline completion

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 08:50:29 +0200

yes, the completion in the middle of a command line doesn't work well.

Ajay Shah writes:
> Package: bash
> Version: 2.05b-14
> Severity: normal
> 
> I wanted to say:
> 
> $ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh h*`
> 
> I went till the 2nd last letter "h" of the last backquotes and did tab
> tab.
> At that point, this happens:
> 
> $ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh hused: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> 
> Each time I press tab, one more of these error messages is emitted.
> 
> It may be useful for you to know that :
> 
> $ ls
> belllabs.ps       huangkhanna2.pdf  outsourcing.pdf  syria.ps
> huangkhanna1.pdf  huangkhanna3.pdf  outsourcing.ps   wrongstuff.ps
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>      -ans.

Message #19 received at 239755@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>

To: Ajay Shah <ajayshah@mayin.org>, 239755@bugs.debian.org, ian@caliban.org

Subject: Re: Bug#239755: bash: Bug in commandline completion

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:56:25 -0700

On Sat 01 May 2004 at 08:50:29 +0200, you wrote:

> yes, the completion in the middle of a command line doesn't work well.

It's a known limitation of the bash completion mechanism, I'm afraid.
Basically, I can't offer you a workaround at present.

> Ajay Shah writes:
> > Package: bash
> > Version: 2.05b-14
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I wanted to say:
> > 
> > $ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh h*`
> > 
> > I went till the 2nd last letter "h" of the last backquotes and did tab
> > tab.
> > At that point, this happens:
> > 
> > $ cat /dev/null | mutt sue -s "You knew these?" `manyattach.sh hused: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> > sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> > sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> > sed: -e expression #1, char 51: Unterminated `s' command
> > 
> > Each time I press tab, one more of these error messages is emitted.
> > 
> > It may be useful for you to know that :
> > 
> > $ ls
> > belllabs.ps       huangkhanna2.pdf  outsourcing.pdf  syria.ps
> > huangkhanna1.pdf  huangkhanna3.pdf  outsourcing.ps   wrongstuff.ps

Ian
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Message #30 received at 239755-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: 239755-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>, Ajay Shah <ajayshah@mayin.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#239755: bash: Bug in commandline completion

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:20:41 +0200

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fixed 239755 20080705
thanks

Hi,
you're being CCed because you showed interest in Debian bug #239755
(<http://bugs.debian.org/239755>).
I'm writing this mail to say that the bug seems having disappeared during the
years (this bug is from 2004...).

Please if you happen to re-encounter this bug again, feel free to reopen it, by
sending a mail to control@bugs.debian.org with:

reopen 239755
thanks


Kindly,
David

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