[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#576675: bash-completion: bash completion for scp overescapes spaces and does not, correctly re-filter ("\\\ " instead of "\ ")

Martin Eve martin at martineve.com
Tue Apr 6 12:35:17 UTC 2010


Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic ubuntu-patch

Directory structure on target:

/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/file.txt

Type:

scp target:/home/martin/directory<TAB><TAB>

Expected:

scp target:/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/

Actual:

scp target:/home/martin/directory\\\ 1/

To summarise, it is impossible to do any further autocompletion once the
\\\ escape sequence has been given.

This is caused by the incorrect line:

  # unescape spaces
  path=${path//\\\\\\\\ / }

in contrib/ssh

It should, instead, read:

  # unescape spaces
  path=${path//\\\\}

This is fixed in bash-completion version control, but next release is
not scheduled for quite some time (AFAIK).

*** /tmp/tmpmIQ722
In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:

  * Fix scp overescaping (LP:482753)

We thought you might be interested in doing the same.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500,
'karmic')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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