[Bug 1087996] Re: Completion of cp command adds space instead of slash to directories

[Peter Cordes]

I've never seen this, and it doesn't currently happen on Ubuntu 14.04.  If you can still reproduce this, give us a testcase.
e.g.
 mkdir -p foo/bar
 touch foo/bar/baz
 cp foo/b<tab>

or something.

 But probably you have something bad in your ~/.bash_completion, or
/etc/bash_completion.d, or something, that's breaking programmable
completion for other stuff.


** Changed in: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Completion of cp command adds space instead of slash to directories

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When using tab-completion for the cp command, when completing
  directories, the completion inserts a space instead of a slash after
  the name. This causes much backspacing and retyping.

  Expected behavior:
  cp ~/src/pr<TAB>
  cp ~/src/projects/j<TAB> ==> ~/src/projects/java/
  cp ~/src/projects/java/pom<TAB> ==>~/src/projects/java/pom.xml<SPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects/java/pom.xml ~/tmp/

  Actual behavior:
  cp ~/src/pr<TAB> ==> ~/src/projects<SPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects <BACKSPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects/j<TAB> ==> ~/src/projects/java<SPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects/java <BACKSPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects/java/pom<TAB> ==> ~/src/projects/java/pom.xml<SPACE>
  cp ~/src/projects/java/pom.xml ~/tmp/

  This works as expected on Ubuntu 12.04 Server, and I'm pretty sure it
  used to work on Kubuntu 12.04 (what I am running) until relatively
  recently, maybe just a couple of weeks ago.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: bash-completion 1:1.3-1ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-34.53-generic 3.2.33
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec  8 10:05:28 2012
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: bash-completion
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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