This bug was fixed in 4.2-3 upload, and hence is fixed in quantal and
raring.
However, there is a new option that one needs to set - direxpand.
direxpand
If set, bash replaces directory names with the results of word expansion when
performing filename completion. This
changes the contents of the readline editing buffer. If not set, bash
attempts to preserve what the user typed.
bash (4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Apply upstream patches 025 - 029, fixes for
- When used in a shell function, `declare -g -a array=(compound assignment)'
creates a local variable instead of a global one.
- The `lastpipe' option does not behave correctly on machines where the
open file limit is less than 256.
- When the `extglob' shell option is enabled, pattern substitution does not
work correctly in the presence of multibyte characters.
- When using a word expansion for which the right hand side is evaluated,
certain expansions of quoted null strings include spurious ^? characters.
- Bash-4.2 tries to leave completed directory names as the user typed them,
without expanding them to a full pathname. One effect of this is that
shell variables used in pathnames being completed (e.g., $HOME) are left
unchanged, but the `$' is quoted by readline because it is a special
character to the shell. This patch introduces two things:
- A new shell option, `direxpand', which, if set, attempts to emulate the
bash-4.1 behavior of expanding words to full pathnames during
completion;
- A set of heuristics that reduce the number of times special characters
such as `$' are quoted when the directory name is not expanded.
* Mark bash and bash-static as Multi-Arch: foreign . Closes: #674120.
* Avoid warning for unset debian_chroot with -u (Marko Mäkelä).
Closes: #659940.
* Fix string expansion: \u and \U for code points U+0080 to U+00FF (Darran
Salt). Closes: #661386.
* Search $- for `i' for the interactivity test. Closes: #482194.
* Search for bash_completion in /usr/share/bash-completion too.
Closes: #655071, #655208.
-- Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:45:35 +0200
** Also affects: bash (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: bash (Ubuntu Raring)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Also affects: bash (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu Raring)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: New => Fix Released
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => Incomplete
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In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather
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