Debian Bug report logs - #576675
bash-completion: bash completion for scp overescapes spaces and does not, correctly re-filter ("\\\ " instead of "\ ")

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

From: Martin Eve <martin@martineve.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: bash-completion: bash completion for scp overescapes spaces and does not, correctly re-filter ("\\\ " instead of "\ ")

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:35:17 +0100

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Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic ubuntu-patch

Directory structure on target:

/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/file.txt

Type:

scp target:/home/martin/directory<TAB><TAB>

Expected:

scp target:/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/

Actual:

scp target:/home/martin/directory\\\ 1/

To summarise, it is impossible to do any further autocompletion once the
\\\ escape sequence has been given.

This is caused by the incorrect line:

  # unescape spaces
  path=${path//\\\\\\\\ / }

in contrib/ssh

It should, instead, read:

  # unescape spaces
  path=${path//\\\\}

This is fixed in bash-completion version control, but next release is
not scheduled for quite some time (AFAIK).

*** /tmp/tmpmIQ722
In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:

  * Fix scp overescaping (LP:482753)

We thought you might be interested in doing the same.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500,
'karmic')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (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/dash

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Message #10 received at 576675@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jkl345@alice-dsl.net

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <576675@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash-completion: sudo rsync whitespace is overescaped, too

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:29:40 +0100

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.2-2
Severity: normal


The command "sudo rsync" is overescaped, too.

Test sequence:

touch '/tmp/filename with spaces'
sudo rsync /tmp/filenam<tab>

The result is:

sudo rsync /tmp/filename\\\ with\\\ spaces\  |end of line|

I am not sure wether this has the same cause, but I guess so.

Greetings,

Raoul Bönisch


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-rc1-nouveau-2010-11-08 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          4.1-3      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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