Hello.
Here's the bug report that bashbug was unable to send because it did not
find something called rmail on my system. I hope these bugs can be fixed.
Sincerely,
Shriramana Sharma.
From: Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: bug-bash@gnu.org,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Various kinds of incorrect auto-completion in bash
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i486
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib -g -O2
uname output: Linux chandas 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC
2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 3.1
Patch Level: 17
Release Status: release
Description:
Auto-completion is meant to fill in valid and unambiguous parts of a shell
command. It's aim is to convenience the error-free entering
and execution of commands. However, there are many cases where autocompletion
gives rise to a mangled command. Therefore I wanted to
report some of those cases I came by.
Repeat-By:
In the following examples, => means "after typing the above when you press tab
it gives"
((1))
diff --f
=>
diff --from-file\=
with a space at the end. Both the \ and space give rise to errors if an
unknowing user executes the command. Similarly the incorrect
result of bash's autocompletion causes errors in the following examples too.
((2))
Sometimes there is no \ but the space is there:
wget --output-f
=>
wget --output-file=
((3))
In general
cp --suffix=
=>
cp --suffix=--suffix\=
If the folder has only one file called file1:
cp --suffix=
=>
cp --suffix=--suffix\=file1
If the folder has many files file1 file2 etc starting with the same sequence
"file":
cp --suffix=
=>
cp --suffix=--suffix\=file
((4))
For some options even when the argument is not optional, bash provides two
choices. For example, type:
cp --suffix
Press tab. Bash shows two options:
--suffix --suffix=
But the first option is invalid.
[Describe the sequence of events that causes the problem
to occur.]
Fix:
Since I am not very great at text-processing and autocompletion algorithms, I
am unable to provide this section.
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