What does fix the issue is commenting out the following in the .bashrc in a given user's home directory:
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi It's at the very end of the file and root's .bashrc has this section commented out which is why root isn't susceptible to it. -- tab completion fails when files have same prefix that ends in a quote/escapable-char https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123665 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs