Debian Bug report logs - #638227
bash-completion: fails to escape or quote filenames with shell metacharacters in their names

Package: bash-completion; Maintainer for bash-completion is Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabriel@debian.org>; Source for bash-completion is src:bash-completion (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:45:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version bash-completion/1:1.3-1

Done: Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#638227; Package bash-completion. (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:45:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:45:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.3-1
Severity: normal

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I have a file with shell metacharacters such as "&" and "?" in the name.
Formerly, bash-completion would escape or quote the file name, but now
the entire file name with no escaping or quoting is placed on the
command line.  This causes the command line to be invalid, or not the
desired action. 

Example:

bminton@bminton:~/download/temp$ ls -la
total 3212
drwxr-xr-x 2 bminton bminton      112 Aug 17 16:15 ./
drwxrwx--x 9 bminton www-data    8192 Aug 17 16:15 ../
- -rw-r--r-- 1 bminton bminton  3275093 Aug 17 15:56 wxWidgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2?r=http:%2F%2Fwww.wxwidgets.org%2Fdownloads%2F&ts=1313610850&use_mirror=iweb
bminton@bminton:~/download/temp$ rm ./wxWidgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2?r=http:%2F%2Fwww.wxwidgets.org%2Fdownloads%2F&ts=1313610850&use_mirror=iweb ^C
bminton@bminton:~/download/temp$ 

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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.

- -- no debconf information

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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#638227; Package bash-completion. (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:01:16 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Bash Completion Maintainers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:01:28 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 638227@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

On 08/17/2011 11:24 PM, Brian Minton wrote:

> I have a file with shell metacharacters such as "&" and "?" in the name.
> Formerly, bash-completion would escape or quote the file name, but now
> the entire file name with no escaping or quoting is placed on the
> command line.  This causes the command line to be invalid, or not the
> desired action. 

Maybe a duplicate of #616018?

Reply sent to Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>:
You have taken responsibility. (Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:39:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:39:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #15 received at 638227-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

resolved in current version

Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:27:21 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #638227 bash-completion: fails to escape or quote filenames with shell metacharacters in their names

Debian Bug report logs - #638227
bash-completion: fails to escape or quote filenames with shell metacharacters in their names