What up with this weird tab completion in Ubuntu??

[Colin Law]

On 12 September 2011 10:07, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I have noticed this weird tab completion
> behavior at the terminals.
> For example:
>
> Previously:
> ========
> '$ ls ~/Docum<TAB>'
>
> would give:
> ========
> '$ ls ~/Documents/'
>
> which would allow me to type a few more characters and press TAB again
> for further completion.
>
> NOW:
> =====
> '$ ls ~/Docum<TAB>'
>
> gives:
> ====
> '$ ls ~/Documents '
>
> Note the irritating space after the directory name completion above.

Are you sure that in this case there is not a *file* called Documents
(rather than a directory)?

Colin

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