Debian Bug report logs - #481244
bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named "tgz" Package: bash-completion

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

From: Hervé Cauwelier <debian@oursours.net>

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

Subject: bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named "tgz" Package: bash-completion

Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:31 +0200

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20060301-4
Severity: normal

We use a directory named "tgz" containing archives. One school suffix
their archives with ".tar.gz" while the other one suffix them with
".tgz".

I've just discovered that bash is unable to complete on "tgz/*.tar.gz".

A test case to reproduce it:

$ mkdir tgz
$ touch tgz/foobar.tar.gz
$ touch tgz/foobar.tgz
$ tar xf tgz/foo<TAB>

bash-completion will autocomplete foobar.tgz, ignoring the other one.

Rename the directory "tgz" into "blah", redo the test and
bash-completion will autocomplete up to "tgz/foobar.t". Another <TAB>
and it is now proposing the two choices.

Definitely renaming the "tgz" directory is a workaround already done.

Regards,

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-1      The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File: 
preserv

bash-completion recommends no packages.

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Message #12 received at 481244-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 481244-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Hervé Cauwelier <debian@oursours.net>, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named "tgz"

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:35:38 +0200

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tags 481244 confirmed
thanks

Hi Hervé,

On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:31 +0200, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:

> We use a directory named "tgz" containing archives. One school suffix
> their archives with ".tar.gz" while the other one suffix them with
> ".tgz".
> 
> I've just discovered that bash is unable to complete on "tgz/*.tar.gz".
> 
> A test case to reproduce it:
> [..]
> 
> bash-completion will autocomplete foobar.tgz, ignoring the other one.
> 
> Rename the directory "tgz" into "blah", redo the test and
> bash-completion will autocomplete up to "tgz/foobar.t". Another <TAB>
> and it is now proposing the two choices.

I can confirm this bug.
Thanks for your report, we'll work on this.

Kindly,
David

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Message #17 received at 481244-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: 481244-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named, "tgz"

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:32:55 +0200

Version: 20080617.4

Hi

I can't confirm this bug anymore in the above version, so I'm closing it...

Cheers

Luk

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