Bug#315515: bash: Environment variables completion error for commands 'cd' and 'ls'. (forwarded from Peter Gebauer)

2006-02-25 Thread Ian Macdonald 
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 Subject: Bug#315515: bash: Environment variables completion error for 
 commands 'cd' and 'ls'.
 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:23:59 +0200
 
 Package: bash
 Version: 3.0-15
 Severity: minor
 
 cd $MY_VARtab will complete to cd \$MY_VARIABLE and escape the 
 dollar character.
 You don't want it escaped, you want to use it. Also, it doesn't need to 
 expand variables, just leave them as they are.
 ls $MY_VARtab will not complete at all.

This can't be fixed, due to a limitation in bash itself. For cd
completion to treat pathnames correctly and not append a space to them,
'complete -o filenames' must be used. Unfortunately, this has the
effect of treating $foo as a filename, too, so bash escapes the $
metacharacter.

Ian
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Bug#315515: bash: Environment variables completion error for commands 'cd' and 'ls'.

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Gebauer 
Package: bash
Version: 3.0-15
Severity: minor

cd $MY_VARtab will complete to cd \$MY_VARIABLE and escape the 
dollar character.
You don't want it escaped, you want to use it. Also, it doesn't need to 
expand variables, just leave them as they are.
ls $MY_VARtab will not complete at all.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files  3.1.4Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6   2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5 5.4-4Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  passwd  1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and

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