Debian Bug report logs - #543982
bash: Completion with spaces broken.

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

From: Philipp Weis <pweis@pweis.com>

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

Subject: bash: Completion with spaces broken.

Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:41:39 -0400

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Package: bash
Version: 4.0-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

with the latest update of bash, command completion is doesn't work
anymore on my system with filenames that contain spaces.

For example, if I have a file names "aaa bbb" and I type

  "ls a<TAB>"

it autocompletes to

  "ls aaa\ "

but not beyond the space in the string. If I hit TAB again, nothing
happens.

This worked just fine with bash 3.2-6.

Philipp


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (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 depends on:
ii  base-files                5.0.0          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils               3.2.1          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.9-25         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii  bash-completion               1:1.0-3    programmable completion for the ba

Versions of packages bash suggests:
ii  bash-doc                      4.0-4      Documentation and examples for the

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Message #10 received at 543982@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: EspeonEefi <espeoneefi@eep.dnsalias.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <543982@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Completion with spaces broken.

Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:38:33 -0400

Package: bash
Severity: normal

Perhaps this is related to bug #544024 [1] against bash-completion?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544024

When I removed the sourcing of /etc/bash_completion from my ~/.bashrc,
completion of filenames with spaces worked again. I don't know whether
it's bash's or bash-completion's fault that the combination of the
current versions of both leads to broken completion of filenames that
need backslashes to escape special characters.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (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 depends on:
ii  base-files                5.0.0          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils               3.2.1          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.9-25         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii  bash-completion               1:1.0-3    programmable completion for the ba

Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn  bash-doc                      <none>     (no description available)

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Message #19 received at 543982@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com>

To: 543982@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Patch which fixes this issue

Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:13:18 +0800

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tag 543982 +patch
thanks

Here's a patch which appears to fix the issue for me, running Bash 4.0-5ubuntu2.
I haven't tested it with older versions of Bash though. Please use it as you
wish, and make further changes if necessary.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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Message #26 received at 543982@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com>

To: 543982@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Patch which fixes this issue

Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:24:13 +0800

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tag 543982 -patch
thanks

On Sunday 04,October,2009 05:13 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> tag 543982 +patch
> thanks
> 
> Here's a patch which appears to fix the issue for me, running Bash 4.0-5ubuntu2.
> I haven't tested it with older versions of Bash though. Please use it as you
> wish, and make further changes if necessary.
> 

*cough*
I didn't see one of the comments pointing to a bug filed in bash-completion.
Seems it's fixed there already. Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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Message #39 received at 543982-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: 543982-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 544956-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 548454-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bash: Completion with spaces broken.

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:22:59 -0600

reassign 543982 bash-completion 1:1.0-3
unarchive 544024
forcemerge 544024 543982
quit

Philipp Weis wrote:

> For example, if I have a file names "aaa bbb" and I type
> 
>   "ls a<TAB>"
> 
> it autocompletes to
> 
>   "ls aaa\ "
> 
> but not beyond the space in the string. If I hit TAB again, nothing
> happens.
> 
> This worked just fine with bash 3.2-6.
[...]
> ii  bash-completion               1:1.0-3    programmable completion for the ba

Fixed by bash-completion 1.1-1.  Please let me know if that seems not
to be the case.

Thanks for reporting.  

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