[Bug 778627] Re: In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather than expanding them

[Thomas Ward]

Nominated for Precise.  As Comment 21 says Quantal and Raring are
unaffected, i'm not nominating them.

Given that this bug was initially filed against Natty, can someone test
this on Oneiric to see if it is also affected?

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Thomas Ward
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Title:
  In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather
  than expanding them

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “bash” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “bash” package in Fedora:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  ~$ mkdir -p /tmp/testd/finger/toe
  /tmp$ cd /tmp/testd
  /tmp/testd$ td=`pwd`
  /tmp/testd$ cd ../
  /tmp$ ls $td/fing

  Type a TAB character at this point, and bash completion makes the line:
  /tmp$ ls \$td/finger 

  Note that while 'fing' has been expanded to 'finger ' (with a space at the end), the $td variable reference has had the
  $ character quoted with a backslash.  This prevents further extension of the pathname, and in fact makes
  the command invalid; if I type a newline at this point, I get:
  ls: cannot access $td/finger: No such file or directory

  This is not useful behavior.  I believe that in Ubuntu 10.10, the $td variable would have been expanded
  to  '/tmp/testd', and subsequent completions starting from '/tmp/testd/finger' would have worked.

  
  [The version of /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh that is installed starts with:

  # _filedir : to handle file and directories with spaces in their names.
  if ! type _filedir &> /dev/null ; then

  so I don't think that file is overriding /etc/bash_completion's
  _filedir ...]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: bash 4.2-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May  6 09:48:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  SourcePackage: bash
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (6 days ago)

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