wishlist: bash completion could do better with umount with spaces

[Anthony Godshall]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

For example, with a common USB drive that mounts as "/media/My Passport" ...

# mount|grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1999,gid=1999,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
# umount /media/My

The tab-complete stops at My and doesn't escape the space or put quotes around.

The recipe for rsync does the right thing...
# rsync /media/My\ Passport/

The place for the improvement would appear to be in this snipped of /etc/bash_completion:

     _umount()
    {
        local cur IFS=$'\n'

        COMPREPLY=()
        cur=`_get_cword`

        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '$( mount | cut -d" " -f 3 )' -- "$cur" ) )

        return 0
    }
    complete -F _umount $dirnames umount

... but I don't know what it would be or I'd write and include a patch.

Tony

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 5 22:20:03 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bash-completion

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

I am unable to reproduce this bug on a Maverick amd64 system running bash 4.1-2ubuntu4 and bash-completion 1:1.2-2ubuntu1.

When you type "umount /media/My" (with no trailing space) and then press tab, does it do nothing, or does it add an unescaped trailing space? If it appends a space (without a backslash), then I think this should be considered a bug, and not just a wishlist item.