[Bug 1330173] Re: bash-completion of Makefile: invalid option name

[Peter Cordes]

Good catch, but the right fix is to use command grep, like most of the uses of grep in bash-completion do.  --color=never isn't portable to systems where grep isn't GNU grep.  So yes, this is a bug, and bash-completion is supposed to not break even if you have 
alias grep='cat /dev/random'

 But yes, --color=auto usually works better.  If you ever make one-
liners on the cmdline, you're shooting yourself in the foot unless you
like remembering to type command grep, or \grep.  Like  less $(ls
foo/bar | grep something).

 On the other hand, less -R can handle color escape codes these days,
and even matches searches in coloured text.  Hmm, that's pretty nice
actually.

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Title:
  bash-completion of Makefile: invalid option name

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Happened with two computers when upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04.
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
  GNU bash, versio 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

  Steps: 
  Create very simple Makefile
  echo -e "foo: \n\nbar:" > Makefile

  make [TAB]
  Gives error "bash: set: posix: invalid option name"

  
  make[TAB][TAB] 
  gives
  bash: set: posix: invalid option name
  bash: set: posix: invalid option name

  bar  foo

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