Re: compgen gets confused when trying to complete ambiguous special char

[Mika Fischer]

* Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> [2008-03-17 22:57]:
>> Can you elaborate on the differences in case they're the cause of other
>> strange behaviours?
>
> 1.  Backslashes should not be stripped within single quotes.
>
> 2.  Backslashes should only be stripped within double quotes if they're
>     followed by one of $ ` " \ <newline>

Ah, that's the reason for this behaviour then (using your quote func.):
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f $(quote "STORE")
STORE\'N\'GO
STORE'N'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f $(quote "STORE'")
STORE'N'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f $(quote "STORE\'")
mika@arthur:~/rrr(1)$ compgen -f $(quote "STORE\\'")
mika@arthur:~/rrr(1)$ compgen -f $(quote "STORE\\\'")
STORE\'N\'GO

So I guess I would not need the quote fuction but a function that quotes
the way compgen unquotes :)

I tried this and it seems to work:
quote2()
{
        local t=${1//\\/\\\\}
        echo \'${t//\'/\'\\\'\'}\'
}

mika@arthur:~/rrr$ for i in test*; do echo -n "${i:0:5}: "; compgen -f
"$(quote2 "${i:0:5}")"; done
test`: test`test
test : test test
test': test'test
test": test"test
test$: test$test
test\: test\test

Something like this could be useful as a workaround for older versions
of bash. Comments?

> OK, I attached a patch.

On first sight this seems to work well:

mika@arthur:~/rrr(1)$ compgen -f "STORE"
STORE\'N\'GO
STORE'N'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f "STORE'"
STORE'N'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f "STORE\'"
STORE\'N\'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f "STORE\\'"
STORE\'N\'GO
mika@arthur:~/rrr$ compgen -f "STORE\\\'"
mika@arthur:~/rrr(1)$

mika@arthur:~/rrr(1)$ for i in test*; do echo -n "${i:0:5}: "; compgen -f 
"${i:0:5}"; done
test`: test`test
test : test test
test': test'test
test": test"test
test$: test$test
test\: test\test

I'll test it a bit more tomorrow.

Thanks a lot for now!

Regards,
 Mika