[Bug 1460165] Re: Bash completion of flags not working in Trusty

[Margarita Manterola]

Found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20365372/bash-completion-
for-path-in-argument-with-equals-sign-present, where someone complains
about this same problem and then they claim it was a broken completion
script in their config.  I moved away both the /etc/bash_completion.d/
and /usr/share/bash-completion/completions directories, to remove all
completions installed in the system, and I still was able to reproduce
the problem.

There's also the "complete" bash builtin, which establishes the behavior
per command and for the default.  However, changing the default as
mentioned in one of the answers didn't fix the problem for me (not even
after having removed all completions).

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Title:
  Bash completion of flags not working in Trusty

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On the previous version of bash completion for Precise (bash-
  completion v1:1.3-1ubuntu8.1) I was able to use tab completion for
  filenames passed into commands as flags. In the current version in
  Trusty this functionality is missing.

  
  1. Release version: 
  Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:        14.04

  2. Package version:
  bash-completion 1:2.1-4

  3. What you expected to happen
  some_executable --file=/etc/h<TAB> should autocomplete to /etc/hosts

  4. What happened instead. 
  Tab completion does not work for filenames passed into commands as flags

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