still can't reproduce. Is there any chance /nfs/AppServer/applics sometimes looks like a broken symlink? Do you get the same behaviour if you ln -s /tmp /tmpX and then do your examples exactly as typed? And ideally, can you do it without writing to /? mkdir -p test/tmp; cd test ln -s ./tmp tmpX so I don't have to sudo every time I want to create your testcase, or clean up my system. This is what I meant by a testcase that works for non-root.
If this is only reproducible with absolute paths starting with /, then that might be a clue to something. I don't *think* mountpoints should come into this, but I can't reproduce this on my system. Does root on your system have anything different in /root/.bashrc? (or /root/.profile, if you're in a login shell as root). This space-appended behaviour is exactly what's supposed to happen for a broken symlink, so I still think something about your testcase is probably weird. You're not doing completions in a different context than the command will run, are you? like complete on one computer a command that you'll run on another with ssh? I know you probably didn't do anything silly like that, but I'm grasping at straws here. Prob best if you can just capture some info to upload, from the shell that's behaving badly: set > shell_defs.log # capture all your shell function definitions set -x ll /applics[TAB] # will spew hundreds of lines of shell code tracing set +x complete -p ls ll ls -dl /applics /nfs/AppServer/applics copy/paste that output to a file. (or do the above after running script. Yes, a program called script, it logs interactive sessions, default filename is typescript.) Err on the side of pasting more stuff, because so far this doesn't make sense. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372286 Title: unwanted space after directory completion (probably old cruft after upgrades) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/1372286/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
