Debian Bug report logs - #544956
bash: Tab completion no longer works on paths with spaces

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

From: Francis Russell <francis+dbts@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

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

Subject: bash: Tab completion no longer works on paths with spaces

Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:03:55 +0100

Package: bash
Version: 4.0-4
Severity: normal


The recent update to 4.0-4 seems to have broken tab completion of pathnames when they contain spaces. To
reproduce, try using tab completion on a path containing spaces. Bash now does nothing whatsoever.

Francis


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 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+20090803-1 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 #10 received at 544956@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alex Goebel <alex.goebel@gmail.com>

To: 544956@bugs.debian.org

Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:17:46 -0700

I can confirm this problem. After downgrading to 3.2-6 it works again.

Message #23 received at 544956@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francis Russell <francis+dbts@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

To: 544956@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#544956: Acknowledgement (bash: Tab completion no longer works on paths with spaces)

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:03:32 +0000

Hi,

As of (at least) bash 4.1-1, this appears to be fixed.

Francis

Message #34 received at 544956-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
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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.

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