It was sox who messed it up.
The play command of sox.
As soon as it is left out, all is well.
Pls. loop up the Gentoo Forums for more:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6162718.html
This is NOT a bug in bash nor readline. Sorry!
Four hours, no replies yet.
So I decided to post a comment on:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6162718.html
Thanx if someone with more profound GNU bash programming understanding
finds a fix or an explanation and a workaround for this...
(I wasn't able to send this with bashbug)
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -
DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gn
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/sha