Debian Bug report logs - #833059
coreutils: "du --exclude='*.jpg' /<Tab>" doesn't autocomplete

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

From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@mail.ru>

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

Subject: coreutils: "du --exclude='*.jpg' /<Tab>" doesn't autocomplete

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:44:48 +0300

Package: coreutils
Version: 8.23-4
Severity: normal

Type the following:
du --exclude='*.jpg' /<Tab>

You will see that <Tab> doesn't autocomplete. "du /<Tab>" works normally.
bash-completion is installed. The following is uncommented in /etc/bash.bashrc:

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
  if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
    . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
  elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
  fi
fi

Completion works normally in other utils (such as dpkg and apt).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1      2.2.52-2
ii  libattr1     1:2.4.47-2
ii  libc6        2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libselinux1  2.3-2

coreutils recommends no packages.

coreutils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #14 received at 833059@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aditya Vaidya <kroq.gar78@gmail.com>

To: 833059@bugs.debian.org

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 00:44:39 -0700

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I'm on Wheezy with bash-completion version 2.1-4 and I can confirm. I
believe I have also narrowed the bug down.

This lists files in root:

$ du --exclude=asdf /<TAB>

But this (with quotes) does not:

$ du --exclude="asdf" /<TAB>

After a quick survey, it seems like it happens to all options that have an
equals sign (=) in them.

Sincerely,
Aditya Vaidya

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