retitle 740971 bash: completion fails on file names that contain spaces or
other special characters
thanks
On Mar 08, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> To clarify, it's not that completion is completely broken, it just fails when
> several files share a start which contains at least one space.
Completion already fails on a single file name which contains a
space. Try:
$ mkdir /tmp/test && cd /tmp/test && touch 'a a'
$ ls <TAB><TAB>
Nothing happens ..
Completion also fails for file names which contain other special
characters which bash would escape with a backslash on
completion. Try the above example with file names like "a("
or "a,".
You can use single quotes to work around this bug:
$ ls '<TAB><TAB>
In the example above this works as expected. Strangely it does
not work when you use double quotes instead.
Uwe
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