[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#837457: bash-completion: gzip completion broken if no space before >

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.1-4.3
Severity: normal

Hello,

mkdir /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
touch foo.gz
touch a

now, if I type:

gzip < a > foo

and press tab, "foo" gets completed into foo.gz . However, if I type:

gzip < a> foo

i.e. no space before '>', and press tab, "foo" doesn't get
completed. Worse, if a foobar directory exists (mkdir foobar), then tab
does complete into foobar, ignoring the foo.gz file. this is very
inconvenient since it is completely fine not to type a space before '>'.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.4~rc2-1
ii  dpkg  1.18.10

bash-completion recommends no packages.

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-- 
Samuel
 CN > J'ai enseigné l'algorythmique.
 GLG> C'est quoi l'algorythmique ? Une contrebasse programmée en Algol ?
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