Re: Autocompletion problems with nounset and arrays

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/26/16 1:09 AM, Eric Pruitt wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       There's a quirk with Bash's autocompletion when trying to use tab
>       completion with built-in arrays while the nounset option is enabled:
> 
>       ~$ echo ${BASH_AL<Tab>bash: BASH_ALIASES: unbound variable
>       IASES}
> 
>       Note that this happens using Bash's built-in completion; my Bash
>       configuration includes "complete -r" since many of the compgen
>       completions written for Bash use unset variables.

Thanks for the report.  I will fix this before bash-4.4 is released.

Chet

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