[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][313876] Error-messages on bash startup (with fix)

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Tue Oct 23 19:45:45 UTC 2012


bash-completion-Bugs item #313876, was changed at 2012-10-23 22:45 by Ville Skyttä
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Bas van G (bavang-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Error-messages on bash startup (with fix) 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
>Status: Invalid
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Hi,

When starting bash, I got messages like following:

bash: [: =: unary operator expected
bash: [: =: unary operator expected

After some tracing I found the cause in /etc/bash_completion.d/procps

This uses the value $UNAME unquoted on lines 26 and 41, and, since UNAME is not set on my system, this causes above errors.

Quoting $UNAME fixes it for me.

Hope this will help -at least- other people with systems which are as poorly configured as this one.

greetings,
  Bas

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>Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2012-10-23 22:45

Message:
Based on the description I guess you're using an old version of bash-completion, the current version is 2.0.

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