Do you have Adobe Reader and its bash completion installed? It is known to break things in various ways, including the way you describe:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/745833 The problematic completion from Adobe Reader installs to /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh on my Fedora box, don't know if the path is the same in Debian. _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
