[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#742345: bash-completion: Fails to autocomplete on filenames starting with a square bracket

David Paleino dapal at debian.org
Sat Mar 22 17:43:12 UTC 2014


Hello,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:09:03 +0800, Neilvert Noval wrote:

> [..]
>    * What led up to the situation?
>         On bash, I cannot autocomplete files starting with square brackets
> '['. Example, if I have a file [aText].txt, and I want to do:
>             $> cat [<tab>
>         The file won't autocomplete.

Can you please try 2.1-3? It is currently in unstable, and we fixed a couple of
issues with bash 4.3 -- including failure to complete on filenames.

Thanks,
David

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