Package: bash
Version: 4.3-8
Followup-For: Bug #740971
Dear Maintainer, Chet,
as you explained (I am just rewording for my own sake) the issue about
"ls a(<TAB>" is somehow related to the fact that "(" means that the
following command is expected to be run in a _subshell_, and in fact
"(<TAB>" gives the same behavior. This and the fact that _all_ the files
in the current dir have the same prefix.
The user should do "ls a\(<TAB>" to tell bash that he is referring to
the "(" in the filename and not to the start-a-subshell character.
So this could even be considered the "correct" behavior, although not
the most straightforward one.
However I found another case when bash completion chokes, this is when
multiple special characters are one after another in a particular
sequence in the name of a directory containing files with a common
prefix.
In the case I found, the character pattern is for example:
one normal, two special, one normal, three special, one normal.
$ mkdir /tmp/bash-test-ao2
$ cd /tmp/bash-test-ao2
$ mkdir a\ \ b\ \ \ c
$ touch a\ \ b\ \ \ c/file{1,2}
$ ls a<TAB><TAB>
The second <TAB> should complete up to:
$ ls a\ \ b\ \ \ c/file
but it does not, it stops at:
$ ls a\ \ b\ \ \ c/
As a counter example, completion works if the directory is named:
a\ \ b\ \ c
i.e.: one normal, two special, one normal, two special, one normal
BTW I did my tests invoking bash with "env -i bash --noprofile --norc"
in order to be sure not to add more variables (literally...) to the
problem.
Thanks,
Antonio
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-ao2 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 7.5
ii dash 0.5.7-4
ii debianutils 4.4
ii libc6 2.19-7
ii libncurses5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140712-2
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:2.1-4
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none>
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Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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