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Strange autocompletion behavior using PATH variable with special symbol


From: Ilyushkin Nikita
Subject: Strange autocompletion behavior using PATH variable with special symbol - apostroph (')
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:04:28 +0400
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall uname output: Linux Lenovo-ThinkPad-T61 3.11.0-15-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 30 17:25:07 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 4.2
Patch Level: 45
Release Status: release

Description:
Expanding PATH variable influence word completion, based on whether was apostrophes in additional path or not.

Repeat-By:
I have an executable file (called deadbeef) with appropriate executable rights, the path to which contains 2 apostrophes:
 /home/mallniya/hard'n'soft/soft/gnu-linux/portable/deadbeef-0.6.0
    Specialy for an experiment I put the same file into another directory:
 /home/mallniya/hardnsoftaa/soft/gnu-linux/portable/deadbeef-0.6.0
If I export first path to the variable PATH there will be no autocompletion in bash, but there will be in the second case. When I type in terminal first letters of program, that resides in exported directory:
    dead[TAB]
There is no completion in first case, but when I use TAB with the same word in second condition (where there is no ' in the PATH) - it works. But if I type command deadbeef in first case manually - it also executes. Moreover, both which and type commands tell, that the executable file is exists in both cases. I tried to report it as bash-autocompletion bug, and that's what they said: "Seems that we (bash-completion) have nothing to do with this; plain vanilla bash behaves as described. See "BUG REPORTS" in the bash man page if you wish to report it against bash."
    So I'm here.
    Original post:
 http://askubuntu.com/questions/415043/strange-autocompletion-behavior

Fix:
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