[Bug 801093] Re: bash autocompletion fails when name contains "illegal" (\t) characters

[Peter Cordes]

touch $'tab\ttab'
echo ta[TAB]  => works
echo tab<literal tab>ta[TAB] => works

so it's fixed in Trusty, or earlier.


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

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Title:
  bash autocompletion fails when name contains "illegal" (\t) characters

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  a file with filename (0001-\tNoise-reduction..patch as seen in the
  python execution) fails auto completion:

  for instance an ls will fail after typing the first two 00 of the patch:
  $ ls 00bash: [: 0001-: binary operator expected

  in a ipython shell I am doing the following:
  In [1]: import glob

  In [2]: glob.glob("*.patch")
  Out[2]: ['0001-\tNoise-reduction..patch']

  obviously this is due to the tab (\t) embedded inside the filename but
  this is still an issue.

  The file contents doesn't make any difference.

  I also tried using more than one \t in the filename and it had
  interesting results.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-server 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun 23 13:32:35 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: bash-completion

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