[Bug 883268] Re: bash ls tab completion broken for files/dirs with spaces in name

Isuru Perera 883268 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Mar 11 07:09:51 UTC 2014


I also experience this on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty).  I have upgraded all
packages and I'm also in proposed repository.

Filenames are not autocompleted in bash. Directory names are
autocompleted.

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Title:
  bash ls tab completion broken for files/dirs with spaces in name

Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Running updated ubuntu 11.10, tab completion fails to escape spaces in
  filenames for some commands.

  To repeat:
  mkdir "abc def"
  touch "abc def"/xyz
  ls ab<TAB><ENTER>
  Expected: 
  xyz
  Observed: 
  ls: cannot access abc: No such file or directory
  ls: cannot access def: No such file or directory

  Also affects tab completion for 'touch', but not for 'echo' or when
  looking for commands.

  This worked fine in ubuntu 11.04.

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