[Bug 219406] Re: bash autocomplete broken when a : is in the path

[Jarno Suni]

I can reproduce in ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)

Type the following in terminal and finally press Tabulator:
cd /tmp && mkdir test && cd test && touch :test 
ls :

Then the last line is:
ls :\:test
Press enter.
ls: cannot access ::test: No such file or directory

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Title:
  bash autocomplete broken when a : is in the path

Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “bash-completion” package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  Say you have a directory that looks like so:

      user at machine:/var/log/gdm$ ls
      :0.log  :0.log.1  :0.log.2  :0.log.3  :0.log.4  failsafe.log

  and you try to view one of the files by typing

      user at machine:/var/log/gdm$ /var/log/gdm/:<TAB KEY>

  Then immediately your command line will look like so:

      user at machine:/var/log/gdm$ cat /var/log/gdm/:/var/log/gdm/\:0.log

  However, if you type

      user at machine:/var/log/gdm$ /var/log/gdm/\:<TAB KEY>

  then it will work as expected, like so:

      user at machine:/var/log/gdm$ cat /var/log/gdm/\:0.log

  Package information:

  $ apt-cache policy bash bash-completion
  bash:
    Installed: 3.2-0ubuntu16
    Candidate: 3.2-0ubuntu16
    Version table:
   *** 3.2-0ubuntu16 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  bash-completion:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 20060301-3ubuntu3
    Version table:
       20060301-3ubuntu3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

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