David Korn writes:
> Since the file has a space in it, ksh quotes the while name. However,
> since this is a directory, it places a / at the end and omits
> the trailing ' because it expects that you will type another
> component of the name.  It doesn't know that it is expecting
> a directory rather than a file.

Other shells use \-escaping rather than '-quoting in completed strings
for just this reason.  Would that work here?

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