Re: bash: ":?xxx" filename broken on autocomplete

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/27/24 5:28 PM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Control: found -1 5.2.21-2
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:36:03 +0200 Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> 
> wrote:
> > the autocompletion is broken on filenames or directories with ":?" at the 
> > beginning.
> >
> >     # mkdir ':?aa'
> >     # rmdir :<tab>
> >
> > gives me
> >
> >     # rmdir :\:\?
> >
> > which doesn't match the filename; I can finish completion by entering 
> > "aa", but then "rm" rejects this name.
>
> In bash 5.2.21(1) the filename is now fully completed, but the stray ":" at 
> the beginning is still produced:
>
>      $ mkdir ':?aa'
>      $ rmdir :<TAB>
>      $ rmdir :\:\?aa/

`:' is one of the characters in the default value of COMP_WORDBREAKS, which
is how bash exposes the set of characters readline uses to break words for
completion.

The word being completed here is "". If you want to complete a filename
starting with `:', quote it with a backslash.

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