Debian Bug report logs - #506973
bash-completion: soft link completion is broken

Reply or subscribe to this bug.

Toggle useless messages

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

From: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>

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

Subject: bash-completion: soft link completion is broken

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:52 +0000

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal

Bash completion fails to account for soft links properly:

  nslater@mahora: ~ $ mkdir -p dir-a/dir-b
  nslater@mahora: ~ $ ln -s dir-a/dir-b dir-c
  nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-a
  nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-b
  nslater@mahora: ~ $ cd dir-c
  nslater@mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-
  doc-a doc-b
  nslater@mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-a
  cat: ../doc-a: No such file or directory
  nslater@mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-ab
  cat: ../doc-b: No such file or directory

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1-bytemark-uml
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-4      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Message #12 received at 506973-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>

Cc: 506973-quiet@bugs.debian.org, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#506973: bash-completion: soft link completion is broken

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:07:05 +0100

tags 506973 confirmed
thanks

Hello Noah,

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:52 +0000, Noah Slater wrote:

> [..]
> 
> Bash completion fails to account for soft links properly:
> 
>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ mkdir -p dir-a/dir-b
>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ ln -s dir-a/dir-b dir-c
>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-a
>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-b
>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ cd dir-c
>   nslater@mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-
>   doc-a doc-b

This is because it considers "dir-c" as a sibling of dir-a, not as
dir-a/dir-b. :(

I don't know whether this is fixable or not. Will have a look.

Thank you for your report.

Kindly,
David

-- 
 . ''`.  Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino
 : :'  : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/
 `. `'`  GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page
   `-   2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174

Message #21 received at 506973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: pablo <pablo.piti@gmail.com>

To: 506973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: bash-completion: soft link completion is broken

Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:31:59 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hello

A quite old bug, but I may have more precise informations

>> Bash completion fails to account for soft links properly:
>> 
>>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ mkdir -p dir-a/dir-b
>>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ ln -s dir-a/dir-b dir-c
>>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-a
>>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ touch doc-b
>>   nslater@mahora: ~ $ cd dir-c
>>   nslater@mahora: ~/dir-c $ cat ../doc-
>>   doc-a doc-b

> This is because it considers "dir-c" as a sibling of dir-a, not as
> dir-a/dir-b. :(
way to reproduce:
pablo@desky:~$ mkdir symlink
pablo@desky:~$ touch toto
pablo@desky:~$ ln -s symlink /tmp/newlink
pablo@desky:~$ touch tmp/tutu
pablo@desky:~$ cd /tmp/newlink
pablo@desky:/tmp/newlink$ cat ../
tutu
pablo@desky:/tmp/newlink$ cat ../tutu
cat: ../tutu: No such file or directory

it looks like bash-completion just looks at the apparent directory structure, and does not follow the target of the links.
On the upper example, it checks into /tmp directory instead of checking into $HOME.

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Message #26 received at 506973-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: 267060-done@bugs.debian.org, 506973-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Closing bugs

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:59:20 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Heya,
these (#267060 and #506973) are bugs in bash, which it seem aren't going to be
fixed anyway, so I'm closing them.

David

-- 
 . ''`.   Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino
 : :'  : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/
 `. `'`  GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal
   `-   2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.