bash get_cword: command not found

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: bash

while trying to use TAB to auto-complete postfix, I get this errors:

# postfix bash: get_cword: command not found
bash: get_cword: command not found

abort check flush reload start stop
root# postfix flbash: get_cword: command not found
bash: get_cword: command not found

abort check flush reload start stop
root# postfix flusbash: get_cword: command not found
bash: get_cword: command not found

abort check flush reload start stop
root# postfix flush

# bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

postfix version: 2.5.2-1

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Umount aint any better:

/$ umount / «TAB TAB»
/lib/i
it/rw
/proc
/sys
/var/ru

/var/lock
/dev
/dev/shm
/dev/pts
/sys/fs/fuse/co

ectio
s
/home
/sys/ker
el/security
/proc/sys/fs/bi
fmt_misc
/home/b
do/.gvfs

[emil.s (emil.s)]

I can confirm this.

On a completely new installation of Intrepid:
root@sandnabba: ~ #> /etc/init.d/postfix *tab-tab* bash: get_cword: command not found
bash: get_cword: command not found

abort check flush reload start stop
root@sandnabba: ~ #> /etc/init.d/postfix

Postfix: Version: 2.5.5-1
root@sandnabba: ~ #> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)

[criser (devel-god)]

The attached patch solves the problem for me.

[criser (devel-god)]

This patch should fix both, the postfix and the umount issue.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirming this for Intrepid and for Jaunty. It's a problem in bash-completion and the patch criser created fixes both problems. I will make a debdiff for Jaunty. Thanks for your work.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Here is the debdiff to patch the current version of bash-completion in Jaunty

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks, debdiff looks good. Uploaded.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bash-completion - 20060301-4ubuntu3

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bash-completion (20060301-4ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Fix IFS issue in _umount and correct _get_cword in _postfix (LP: #249337)

 -- Martin Mai <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:31:39 +0000