Debian Bug report logs - #548454
Bug report on Bash v. 4.0-4

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

From: Jan.Kadera <Jan.Kadera@seznam.cz>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: tomi@nomi.cz

Subject: Bug report on Bash v. 4.0-4

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:24:05 +0200 (CEST)

Package: bash
Version: 4.0-4

Hello,
I have upgraded my bash from version 3 to versin 4 and the bash-completion stoped working.
When I try to complete a name which contains a space in it's name, it doesn't work.

If I have file with name "example for example" and I type ex and then press Tab-key, it completes the whole word, the thing is, that, whenever I'm in situation, I have two similar names of files and I have to type in the space and then the bash won't complete anything.

For example...I have two files in directory "The.example" and "The example"...then if I want to acces one of those, I have to type the whole name. If I type "The\ " and then press Tab-key, nothing happens.

It works just fine if I do a "complete -r ls" before trying it.

I am using Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-686


Best regards and have a nice day
Honza with helpful help of Pivnik

Message #22 received at 548454-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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