bash autocompletion giving COMP_WORDS with &&

[Jesse_Adkins]

Binary package hint: bash

Ubuntu Version : 9.04
Program Version : 3.2-5ubuntu1
Steps to reproduce :
Fire up the terminal and type the following

make &&

Now press tab like so :

make <tab> &&

(It's important that you _not_ press tab right next to &&. It has to be in the middle.)

When I do this, I get the following message
 bash: COMP_CWORD]: bad array subscript

I tried doing this with a few other utilities : ls, man, apt-get, and time. Every time I got at least one or more COMP_WORD error messages. time was the only one that gave an infinite loop of COMP_WORD messages.

[Ruud Koot (ruudkoot)]

additional examples:

cat<space 1><space2>|

putting your cursor on the second space and pressing tab results in:

bash: COMP_CWORD]: bad array subscript

cd<space1><space2>/

putting the cursor on the the second space and pressing tab results in:

bash: $index: substring expression < 0

[Rorzik (rorzik)]

I confirm this in bash 3.2-5ubuntu1 on 9.04, and that it's still present in bash 4.0-5ubuntu2 on 9.10.
It only triggers for the commands with special completion processing. For example:
cd /tmp
cp /bin/cat cat
./cat<space><space>foo (tab between spaces triggers error "-bash: $index: substring expression < 0")
cp /bin/cat test
./test<space><space>foo (tab between spaces does NOT trigger an error)

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

I am unable to reproduce this on 9.10, 10.04, or natty.

Can somebody please provide the exact version of bash-completion that this occurs with?

Marking Incomplete pending responses.

[Jesse_Adkins (jesse-adkins7)]

I tried my own test and the test documented in #2 using bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 and I can't reproduce the problem. I'm not sure what I used to show the problem in the first place, but it seems to be fixed.

[Vladimir Rutsky (rutsky)]

I think this bug is same as #692562.

[Vladimir Rutsky (rutsky)]

(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/692562)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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