completion does not work properly after tar rf

[Ian Jackson]

Binary package hint: bash

I typed
   tar rf /dev/sdb1 Sc<TAB>
in ~ubuntu/Desktop which contained one file starting Sc, namely Screenshot.png, and the TAB didn't do anything. (In case it's relevant, /dev/sdb is a usb stick.)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Although I find the idea of creating a tar straight onto the /dev/sdb1 partition a bit frightening, I can confirm that the reported issue itself is present for situations like "tar rf /tmp/test.tar /tmp/Sc <TAB> <TAB>" as well. Bash completion for "tar cf /tmp/test.tar /tmp/Sc <TAB> <TAB>" works fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bash-completion - 20060301-3ubuntu1

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bash-completion (20060301-3ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Bug fix upload (LP: #194860)
   - Fixed completion of filenames with spaces
   - Fixed completion of hostnames with scp
   - Fixed completion of filenames with scp
   - Fixed parsing of SSH config files to parse Host and HostName lines
     correctly. Previously "HostName host" lines were parsed as two hosts:
     "Name" and "host".
  * More bugfixes:
   - Fix tar completion to handle "tar rf" the same as "tar cf" (LP: #94407)
   - Complete .m4v and .M4V for media players (LP: #115224)
   - Complete .divx and .flv for media players (LP: #127605)
   - Complete all files for "gzip ... <" (LP: #127605)
   - Allow whitespace in front of GlobalKnownHostsFile etc. (LP: #128866)
   - Complete compressed files for vim (LP: #149494)
   - Always use /etc/hosts and $HOSTFILE for host completion too (LP: #184175)
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Mika Fischer <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:46:17 +0100