Interestingly I can reproduce this issue only on some machines, but not on all of them despite they all have bash 4.2.
I could reproduce it on Natty and Precise, on Debian Wheezy, and on one, but not on all of my Debian Sid boxes (4.2-5). Disabling the sourcing of /etc/bash_completion (either manually enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc) made the problem vanish on Debian and on Natty, but not on Precise. Even purging bash-completion did not help on Precise. And that's not all: While on precise using "bash --rcfile /dev/null" still did not fix the issue, it brought the issue back on Natty. And on Debian Sid it still worked as expected, i.e. did not add any backslash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778627 Title: In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather than expanding them To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/778627/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
