Command not found with builtins and variables

Hi, I'm not exactly sure if the following is actually a bug or whether bash is actually supposed to behave like this. However, I couldn't find any documentation concerning it so I decided to ask. The thing I noticed is that when setting a variable and then running the command "time", bash reports

Odd bash behaviour with time:

$ time; real0m0.000s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ time;ls bash: syntax error near unexpected token `ls' $ /usr/bin/time;/bin/ls Usage: /usr/bin/time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose] [--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version] [--qui

Oddities when tab-completing filenames containing backticks

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Re: Oddities when tab-completing filenames containing backticks

2009/10/16 Chet Ramey : > You need to remember that readline understands the characters in > rl_completer_quote_characters as those which, in pairs, delimit quoted > substrings in the line. It performs completion (allowing the application > to take first crack, of course) on the substring, using

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