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

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bash-completion-Bugs item #313876, was changed at 2012-10-24 00:53 by Bas van G
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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: Bas van G (bavang-guest)
Date: 2012-10-24 00:53

Message:
Hm... reinstalling made the entire file disappear...

Nevermind, sorry for the noise.

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Comment By: Bas van G (bavang-guest)
Date: 2012-10-24 00:42

Message:
wroong guess...

$ dpkg -l 'bash-completion'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  bash-completio 1:2.0-1        programmable completion for the bash shell

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Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2012-10-23 21:45

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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