Changing the binding of autocompletion function to command from this: complete -F _chown $filenames chown to this: complete -F _chown -o nospace chown avoids both the quotting of the colon and the adding of a trailing space added (both actions are performed by Bash's autocompletion features, so the package selection is probably right).
The relevant line is in /etc/bash_completion. The problem of this solution is that it breaks the proper filename completion for 'chown'. -- TAB autocomplete does not work correctly for "chown user:group" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255058 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
