Re: compgen stops processing backslashes after any call to bind

[of1]

Well, it is said that directories sometimes harbor more than one item :)
Fabien (of1)


#!/usr/bin/env bash

[[ -e "/tmp/Dir\\A" ]] && exit 2
mkdir -p /tmp/Dir\\A/dir\\\\B/ /tmp/Dir\\A/dir\\\\\\C/
touch /tmp/Dir\\A/file\\\\\\\\A "/tmp/Dir\\A/file\\ \\\\B"

f_comp() {
   local CP CPR="${1%\/*}" CPO="${1##*\/}"
   declare -a COMP

   readarray -t COMP \
    < <(compgen -f "${CPR//\\/\\\\\\\\}${1:+/}${CPO//\\/\\\\}")
   for CP in "${COMP[@]}"; do
      CPR="${CP%\/*}"
      printf '%s\n' "${CPR//\\\\/\\}${1:+/}${CP##*\/}"
   done
}

set -o emacs
bind -X

for DF in "/tmp/Dir\\A" "/tmp/Dir\\A/" "/tmp/Dir\\A/dir\\" \
          "/tmp/Dir\\A/file\\"; do
   printf '%s\n' "$(( ++COUNT )) $DF >>>" "$(f_comp "$DF")" ""
done

rm -rf /tmp/Dir\\A/


### Output:
1 /tmp/Dir\A >>>
/tmp/Dir\A

2 /tmp/Dir\A/ >>>
/tmp/Dir\A/file\ \\B
/tmp/Dir\A/file\\\\A
/tmp/Dir\A/dir\\\C
/tmp/Dir\A/dir\\B

3 /tmp/Dir\A/dir\ >>>
/tmp/Dir\A/dir\\\C
/tmp/Dir\A/dir\\B

4 /tmp/Dir\A/file\ >>>
/tmp/Dir\A/file\ \\B
/tmp/Dir\A/file\\\\A