This is generally a collection of multiple bugs in bash-scripted completion functions that aren't correctly saving and restore the current glob setting to allow setting old-style globbing temporarily for their own use, much as IFS is typically handled. Disabling nullglob in a user .bashrc is nothing more than a workaround for that naive code written by others.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668782 Title: shopt -s nullglob breaks bash_completion Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: bash Bash seems to be unable to auto-complete stuff if option nullglob is set. See: luca@manuk:~$ shopt -s nullglob luca@manuk:~$ ls / Display all 147 possibilities? (y or n) luca@manuk:~$ ls /bin Display all 147 possibilities? (y or n) luca@manuk:~$ ls /var Display all 147 possibilities? (y or n) luca@manuk:~$ ls /var # ENTER (no completion) backups/ cache/ games/ lib/ local/ lock/ log/ mail/ opt/ run/ spool/ tmp/ www/ luca@manuk:~$ shopt -u nullglob luca@manuk:~$ ls / bin/ dev/ initrd.img media/ root/ .suspended var/ boot/ etc/ initrd.img.old mnt/ sbin/ sys/ vmlinuz .cache/ home/ lib/ opt/ selinux/ tmp/ vmlinuz.old cdrom/ initrd/ lost+found/ proc/ srv/ usr/ luca@manuk:~$ ls /var/ backups/ cache/ games/ lib/ local/ lock/ log/ mail/ opt/ run/ spool/ tmp/ www/ luca@manuk:~$ ls /var/l lib/ local/ lock/ log/ This happened after I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: bash 4.1-2ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.36-generic 2.6.35.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 30 12:37:19 2010 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_AR:es PATH=(custom, user) LANG=es_AR.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: bash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/668782/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
