Comment 27 for bug 778627

This bug was fixed in 4.2-3 upload, and hence is fixed in quantal and raring.

However, there is a new option that one needs to set - direxpand.

direxpand
 If set, bash replaces directory names with the results of word expansion when performing filename completion. This
 changes the contents of the readline editing buffer. If not set, bash attempts to preserve what the user typed.

bash (4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Apply upstream patches 025 - 029, fixes for
    - When used in a shell function, `declare -g -a array=(compound assignment)'
      creates a local variable instead of a global one.
    - The `lastpipe' option does not behave correctly on machines where the
      open file limit is less than 256.
    - When the `extglob' shell option is enabled, pattern substitution does not
      work correctly in the presence of multibyte characters.
    - When using a word expansion for which the right hand side is evaluated,
      certain expansions of quoted null strings include spurious ^? characters.
    - Bash-4.2 tries to leave completed directory names as the user typed them,
      without expanding them to a full pathname. One effect of this is that
      shell variables used in pathnames being completed (e.g., $HOME) are left
      unchanged, but the `$' is quoted by readline because it is a special
      character to the shell. This patch introduces two things:
      - A new shell option, `direxpand', which, if set, attempts to emulate the
        bash-4.1 behavior of expanding words to full pathnames during
        completion;
      - A set of heuristics that reduce the number of times special characters
        such as `$' are quoted when the directory name is not expanded.
  * Mark bash and bash-static as Multi-Arch: foreign . Closes: #674120.
  * Avoid warning for unset debian_chroot with -u (Marko Mäkelä).
    Closes: #659940.
  * Fix string expansion: \u and \U for code points U+0080 to U+00FF (Darran
    Salt). Closes: #661386.
  * Search $- for `i' for the interactivity test. Closes: #482194.
  * Search for bash_completion in /usr/share/bash-completion too.
    Closes: #655071, #655208.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:45:35 +0200