Debian Bug report logs - #619572
rsync: No shell completion with filenames

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

From: rpnpif <rpnpif@free.fr>

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

Subject: rsync: No shell completion with filenames

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:41:19 +0100

Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.7-2
Severity: normal

rsync -av * my/beginning/of/local/path<TAB>

No completion with list of filenames as with other programs under Bash.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  base-files              6.0squeeze1      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libacl1                 2.2.49-4         Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpopt0                1.16-1           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client                1:5.5p1-6  secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii  openssh-server                1:5.5p1-6  secure shell (SSH) server, for sec

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 619572@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>

To: rpnpif <rpnpif@free.fr>, 619572@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#619572: rsync: No shell completion with filenames

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:57:21 +0100

reassign 619572 bash-completion
found 619572 1:1.3-1
notfound 619572 1:1.2-3
thanks

On Fri 25 Mar 2011, rpnpif wrote:
> 
> rsync -av * my/beginning/of/local/path<TAB>

Firstly, don't ever let shell do expansions for you, that probably does
not do want you want. Replace the '*' with '.' for the same effect, as
you're using -a.

> No completion with list of filenames as with other programs under Bash.

rsync has not even been started at this point! How can this be the fault
of rsync?

I'm reassigning this bug to bash-completion, because this behaviour is
irritating and does indeed need looking into.


Paul

Message #21 received at 619572-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel@inconstante.net.br>

To: <619572-close@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: rsync: No shell completion with filenames

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 23:00:21 -0200

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:41:19 +0100 rpnpif <rpnpif@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> rsync -av * my/beginning/of/local/path<TAB>
> 
> No completion with list of filenames as with other programs under Bash.

No longer reproducible with current sources:

  $ ls my/beginning/of/local/path/
  dir1  dir2  file1  file2

  $ rsync -av * my/beginning/of/local/path/[TAB]
  my/beginning/of/local/path/dir1/   my/beginning/of/local/path/file1 
  my/beginning/of/local/path/dir2/   my/beginning/of/local/path/file2 

I'm closing the bug report as it doesn't reproduce with current sources
(it would be too much trouble now, after so many years, to try and find
the version that fixed it).  Please, do not hesitate to reopen if you
have more information.

Cheers,
Gabriel

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