Public bug reported:
After some unknown update in the past at least week and a half or so, my
bash completion has acted strangely:
- if I begin a filename to complete with
~/
I cannot complete filenames, only directory names, and the suggested names
(if I press tab twice) show only directories (including hidden ones)
- sometimes, under random circumstances, completing relative paths also has the
above restrictions (most recently, trying to complete while in a subdirectory
of /tmp exhibited this behavior)
- if I start a command line as
VAR= -l(space)
for any VAR and -l and press tab, bash-complete throws up its "unknown
argument/incorrect syntax" help message (in my case, I wanted to tab-complete
an LDFLAGS=-L/... whose spaces would be removed once I found the directory that
had the libraries)
Everything else (completing absolute pathnames, command completion,
etc.) works as expected. I do not have the /dir(space) tab-completion
behavior that other questions about bash-complete found here and on
Google cover.
I tried removing /etc/bash_completion.d to no avail.
sudo apt-get --reinstall install bash-complete
did not work either.
complete -r
restores the intended behavior, so it is an issue with bash_completion... this
has persisted across several updates to the bash-completion package as well (I
am currently on 1:2.1-2ubuntu3).
I am on Kubuntu 14.04 on a fresh install; this happens both in Konsole
and in virtual terminals.
What could be going on? Thanks!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: bash-completion 1:2.1-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Mar 11 23:43:32 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-01 (38 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140121.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: bash-completion
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
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