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  1. Bug #778627
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 778627

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nacorn (acorn) wrote : Re: In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather than expanding them

SOLUTION: This was a bug in bash which is fixed in patch bash4.2-029. See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-07/msg00018.html

I build from source as follows:
  - downlaod bash-4.2.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/
  - extract
  - download patches bash42-001 through bash42-029 (actually I did all through 037) from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/
 - apply patches
 - ./configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install

Using this /usr/local/bash fixes the problem -- tab completion on environment variables works again.

Can these patches please be applied to the package in precise and oneiric?
Thanks!