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Hi, the function "quote_readline" seems to cause this behavior. How to reproduce: mkdir "foo bar" mv foo\ <TAB> this produces no resulting matches. bash-completion uses the function "_longopt" in /etc/bash-completion for this operation. The problem seems to be caused by the output of "quote_readline" which is called within "_filedir", which is called by "_longopt". Running dequote/quote_readline does not recover the original input: l...@erker:~$ quote_readline "foo\ " 'foo\\ ' l...@erker:~$ dequote "$(quote_readline "foo\ ")" foo\\ (two backslashs instead of one) In contrast the combination dequote/quote works as expected: l...@erker:~$ quote "foo\ " 'foo\ ' l...@erker:~$ dequote "$(quote "foo\ ")" foo\ (one backslash as expected) I could not understand the difference between "quote" and "quote_readline". But in the case shown above, "quote" would not cause a problem, while "quote_readline" does. Maybe "_filedir" (and "_filedir_xpsec") should use "quote" instead of "quote_readline"? thanks for your work, Lars --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 Debian Release: squeeze/sid 990 testing localhost --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ==========================-+-=============== bash (>= 3.1dfsg-9) | 4.0-4 Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. -- gpg key: https://systemausfall.org/schluessel/lars-devel.0.asc
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