[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#427758: [COMPLETION] filenames starting with =

[Robert Millan]

found 427758 20080617.3
thanks

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:15:50PM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> tags 427758 unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:19:32 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > $ touch =foo
> > $ echo =<TAB>
> > 
> > Expansion results in "=\=foo" rather than "\=foo".
> 
> I can't reproduce this with bash-completion/20060301-4. Here's what I have:
> 
> $ touch =foo
> $ echo =<TAB>
> [lists all files -- possibly a bug, but not this one]

Create an empty directory, then put =foo in it.  This ensures a list of
files isn't offered, and you get the expansion directly, exposing this
bug.

Btw, use my new address when repliing.  I didn't see your earlier mail.

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