Debian Bug report logs - #394636
bash: [completion] error msg with 'sudo mount' and spaces in filename

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

From: Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de>

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

Subject: bash: [completion] error msg with 'sudo mount' and spaces in filename

Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:05:50 +0200

Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-6
Severity: normal

Hi,

when there are more than one match for completion and at least one of
them has two spaces in it, I get an error message from grep:

wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ touch foo\ bar.iso
wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ touch foo\ bar\ baz.iso
wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ sudo mount -o loop foo\ bargrep: Trailing backslash
grep: Trailing backslash

When hitting tab after foo, completion up to foo\ bar works. Hitting tab
twice at that point causes the grep error message to appear.

Cheers,

Wolf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.9
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                   3.1.16      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils                  2.17.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand

bash recommends no packages.

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Message #16 received at 394636-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 394636-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de>, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: bash: [completion] error msg with 'sudo mount' and spaces in filename

Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:16:46 +0200

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tags 394636 confirmed
found 394636 20060301-4
thanks

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:05:50 +0200, Wolf Wiegand wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when there are more than one match for completion and at least one of
> them has two spaces in it, I get an error message from grep:
> 
> wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ touch foo\ bar.iso
> wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ touch foo\ bar\ baz.iso
> wolf@denkbrett:/tmp $ sudo mount -o loop foo\ bargrep: Trailing backslash
> grep: Trailing backslash
> 
> When hitting tab after foo, completion up to foo\ bar works. Hitting tab
> twice at that point causes the grep error message to appear.

I confirm this bug is still here, and it also happens when the file is just one
(just that, in this case, it completes the filename nevertheless). This bug is
caused by grep receiving "foo\" [0] as regular expression, thus breaking
everything.

I've properly tagged the bug, but I don't really know whether this belongs to
bash-completion, or to grep (or both).

Please wait for any further activity on this bug.

Kindly,
David

[0] this really happens with "foo\\", but the code seems to only pass "foo\".

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Message #23 received at 394636-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: 394636-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#394636: fixed in bash-completion 20080617

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:02:04 +0000

Source: bash-completion
Source-Version: 20080617

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bash-completion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bash-completion_20080617.dsc
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617.dsc
bash-completion_20080617.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617.tar.gz
bash-completion_20080617_all.deb
  to pool/main/b/bash-completion/bash-completion_20080617_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 394636@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> (supplier of updated bash-completion package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:59:43 +0200
Source: bash-completion
Binary: bash-completion
Architecture: source all
Version: 20080617
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
Description: 
 bash-completion - programmable completion for the bash shell
Closes: 347316 365658 376433 394636 404976 409423 416655 424736 428641 432289 441017 455510 468254 470539 470742 472132 472940 474094 474517 474974 475242 478596 480879
Changes: 
 bash-completion (20080617) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ David Paleino ]
   * New upstream release
     - add more completions to aptitude (Closes: #432289)
     - fixed UTF-8 problem with _get_cword(), thanks to
       Andrei Paskevich (Closes: #472132)
     - fixed autoremove completion, thanks to Flavio Visentin
       (Closes: #474974)
     - cmf and CMF added to playmidi completion (Closes: #365658)
     - added rrdtool completion, thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #428641)
     - added OpenDocument completion for unzip/zipinfo (.od{f,g,p,s,t})
       (Closes: #472940)
     - fixed escaping problems with job control (i.e. disown, jobs, bg,
       fg): the argument is now surrounded by "" (Closes: #347316)
     - make mkdir complete also on filenames (Closes: #376433)
     - {bz,z}{cat,cmp,diff,egrep,fgrep,grep,less,more} now should complete
       on all filenames, not just compressed archives (just commented out)
       (Closes: #455510)
     - fixes Perl completion (Closes: #470742)
     - fixes get_cword -> _get_cword typo (Closes: #478596)
     - fixes _get_cword() function to properly handle filenames with
       whitespaces (Closes: #394636, #468254, #474094)
     - added .pdf.bz2 completion to evince (Closes: #424736)
     - added .svg completion to display (Closes: #441017)
     - added .m2ts completion to mplayer (Closes: #480879)
     - added extra/dh_bash-completion to ease future rewrite of bc.
   * debian/copyright - now in a fancier machine-parsable format.
   * debian/control:
     - added myself to Uploaders
     - debhelper Build-Depends updated to >= 6.
   * debian/watch:
     - improved current watch line regex
     - added (commented out) probable future watch line
   * debian/compat bumped to 6
   * debian/dirs, debian/install and debian/links added
   * debian/rules:
     - refactored to make use of debian/{dirs,install,links}
 .
   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * Applied patch to fix completion of umount command.
     (Closes: #470539)
   * Fixed the completion of Perl manpages.
     (Closes: #404976)
   * Added 'aif' to the filenames offed for completion for mplayer.
     (Closes: #474517)
   * Allow tsocks completion.
     (Closes: #409423)
   * Update mutt completion to handle local usernames.
     (Closes: #416655)
   * Update apt-get completion to include the flag "--no-install-recommends"
     (Closes: #475242)
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