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

[Peter Cordes]

It's working fine for me.  Do you have some old cruft in
/etc/bash_completion.d that's causing trouble?

And btw, yes once the completion code for ls option processing figures
out that it's completing a filename, it passes it to the same code
that's used generically for filenames.  So if that's having a problem,
it will affect everything.

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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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