Package: bash Version: 5.0-4 Severity: normal With the default setting
complete -F _longopt rm the autocompletion is broken on filenames or directories with ":?" at the beginning. # mkdir ':?aa' # rmdir :<tab> gives me # rmdir :\:\? which doesn't match the filename; I can finish completion by entering "aa", but then "rm" rejects this name. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.0.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 10.3 ii debianutils 4.8.6.1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2 Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 1:2.8-6 Versions of packages bash suggests: pn bash-doc <none> -- no debconf information --