On 8/9/10 12:02 PM, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > Hello, > > I've found a weird behavior. In some circumstances, if I use TAB completion > during typing a command line, the final command is parsed differently than > if I typed it all along. > > I'm on Ubuntu Lucid. The bug described below occurs only if I use the > bash-completion package (that is, I source /etc/bash_completion - it can be > found at http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/bash-completion ). However, the > behavior suggests that probably it's a bug in bash itself, not the > bash-completion package.
Maybe. Before I take a closer look at this, what does running the offending set of commands with `set -x' enabled show? Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/