[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#482300: bash-completion: muttrc source command and | fails

[Christian von Essen]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20060301-4
Severity: normal

My .muttrc contains a line

source '~/Maildir/mutt-archiver|'

Mutt is expected to execute the specified file and source the text
printed by this script.
Bash fails when trying to complete a line beginning with "mutt ". The
problem lies in the 4823 of /etc/bash_completion.
The applied sed regexp returns the line above, which should not happen.
A possible fix is to replace the line from /etc/bash_completion with 
newconffiles=($(sed -rn 's|^source[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]|]+)([^|]*)$|\1|p' $(eval echo $1) ));
but I'm not sure if this is the ideal solution.

Regards,

Christian

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.1dfsg-9  The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File: preserv

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