Problem with bash completion

[Ittay Dror]

Binary package hint: bash

see http://www.nabble.com/Fwd%3A-Problem-with-bash-completion-tt16019987.html (initial message pasted below)

this happens to me (and i'm pretty sure that in a different scenario than the one described below) and is very annoying. can you please update the bash package to the one where this bug doesn't happen?

from the thread:
From: David Rothenberger
Subject: Problem with bash completion

Sometimes bash gets confused and starts adding a slash at the end of
files when I do tab-completion. Here's a simple reproduction script:

~ > bash --noprofile --norc -i
bash-3.2$ mkdir /tmp/bash-problem
bash-3.2$ cd /tmp/bash-problem
bash-3.2$ mkdir d
bash-3.2$ touch x
bash-3.2$ chmod 755 x
bash-3.2$ ./x <---- tab after x completes correctly
bash-3.2$ ./d/ <---- ditto with d
bash: ./d/: is a directory
bash-3.2$ "$(ls ./d/)" <---- pressed tab after d
bash: : command not found
bash-3.2$ ./x/ <---- tab after x now adds slash

Once the shell starts doing this, it keeps doing it. Restarting bash
solves the problem.

[hdante (hdante)]

I have the same problem here. The (non-deterministic) steps to reproduce are:

1. Start bash
2. cat someprefixoffilename[TAB]
3. The name is completed correctly
4. Work
5. cat someprefixoffilename[TAB] again
6. This time, the filename comes with a slash "/" in the end
7. (obviously) cat gives an error saying that the directory was not found

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

Confirmed on hardy with bash 3.2-0ubuntu18.

[tobs12 (hans1215)]

I have the same problem with bash 3.2-0ubuntu18 and not bash-completion installed.

I have a python script printing "export PATH=...:$PATH" .
I do eval `script.py` in bash and sometimes the behaviour of bash completion is buggy as described above.
I tried to hunt this down and find a reason for this but did not succeed so far.

[tobs12 (hans1215)]

I just noticed this also on Jaunty:

'bash --version' says:
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)

Package:
bash 3.2-5ubuntu1