[Bug 482753] Re: bash completion for scp overescapes spaces and does not correctly re-filter ("\\\ " instead of "\ ")

[Martin Eve]

** Tags added: lucid

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 449349
   regression for completing remote files/dirs over ssh

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bash completion for scp overescapes spaces and does not correctly re-filter ("\\\ " instead of "\ ")
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482753
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Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: bash-completion

OS: Karmic 9.10

Directory structure on target:

/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/file.txt

Type:

scp target:/home/martin/directory<TAB><TAB>

Expected:

scp target:/home/martin/directory 1/directory 2/

Actual:

scp target:/home/martin/directory\\\ 1/

To summarise, it is impossible to do any further autocompletion once the \\\ escape sequence has been given.

This is caused by the incorrect line:

		# unescape spaces
		path=${path//\\\\\\\\ / }

in contrib/ssh

It should, instead, read:

		# unescape spaces
		path=${path//\\\\}

Aiming to do a fix for this asap.