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bash-completion package

Autocompletion fails on "user:group" arguments

Bug #241237 reported by Thomas R. on 2008-06-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #255058: TAB autocomplete does not work correctly for "chown user:group". Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bash-completion (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: bash-completion

On typing

$ chown XX[TAB]

the autocompletion returns

$ chown USERNAME\:

(terminated by a space). This is obviously not correct. It should be "chown USERNAME:" without spaces added.

However,
$ chown USERNAME:XX[TAB]
works fine

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Julien Dehee (julien-dehee) wrote on 2008-06-19:

- Reproduced on Hardy
- bash-completion Package version 20060301-3ubuntu3

- Could be the same root cause as bug 177243 ?

Changed in bash-completion:
status:	New → Confirmed

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YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh) wrote on 2009-03-21:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Your particular bug has been reported first but is also a duplicate of bug 255058. This last one is more advanced in is description, so i mark your bug as duplicate. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.