[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#560851: Bug#560851: bash-completion: completion doesn't works if file name has an apostrophe

Freddy Vulto fvulto at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 21:39:28 UTC 2009


On 091212 20:38, skizzhg wrote:
> if I try with "ls" or "mv" then <TAB> to obtain the file list inside,
> it doesn't complete anything
> 
> ~$ ls Pills\ \'n\'\ Thrills\ and\ Bellyaches/<TAB>

I think there's a bug in `compgen -f' if a directory contains a single
or double quote.  I asked the bug-bash mailing list, see:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg06684.html

We need to look into this and probably apply the workarounds below to
_filedir().

Excerpt from bug-bash mail:

---8<--------------------------------------------------------   

So, these are the workarounds:

$ ls a\'b/  # For reference, works on both bash-3 & bash-4
c
$ compgen -f a\\\'b/   # Workaround for bash-4
a\'b/c
$ compgen -f a\\\\\\\'b/   # Workaround for bash-3
a\'b/c

---8<--------------------------------------------------------   


Regards,

Freddy Vulto
http://fvue.nl





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