Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

[Roman Rakus]

On 06/11/2012 11:07 AM, John Embretsen wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 10:10 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM, John Embretsen<johnemb@gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> > > On 27 Feb 2011 18:18:24 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:49 PM, gnu.bash.bug<address@hidden>wrote:
> > > > > A workaround is fine but is the 4.2 behavior bug or not?
> > > >
> > > > It's a more-or-less unintended consequence of the requested change 
> > > > Eric
> > > > Blake referred to earlier in the thread.
> > >
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00275.html
> > >
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > > The question is how to tell readline that the `$' should be quoted
> > > > under some circumstances but not others.  There's no hard-and-fast
> > > > rule that works all the time, though I suppose a call to stat(2)
> > > > before quoting would solve part of the problem.  I will have to give
> > > > it more thought.
> > > >
> > > > Chet
> > >
> > > Any updates on this issue?
>
> (...)
>
> > There have been many updates on this. There have been a "fix"
> > available for some time now on this list .
> >
> > It is now available as an official patch
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-029
>
> Thank you. For someone like me who is not active in this project it 
> seems it is not very easy to keep track of bugs, patches and releases. 
> Is there an issue number/bug number of some sort for this particular 
> issue that I could use for this purpose?
There isn't any tracker for (upstream) bash. At least I don't know about 
any.
> I hope the patch works well enough and that it will end up in Linux 
> distros shortly.
Fedora already has it. But there is also (the same?) bug in 
bash-completion, which is reported upstream.

RR