Re: Tab completion doesn't escape spaces when globbing while using autocd

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/27/21 4:59 PM, Manuel Boni wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 23
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> I currently have these settings in my .bashrc:
> shopt -s autocd
> shopt -s globstar
> shopt -s nocaseglob
> bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on'
> bind 'set completion-ignore-case on'
> bind 'TAB:menu-complete'
> bind '"\e[Z":menu-complete-backward'
>
> Consider the path 'projects/uni/2020/Behavioral Science/'.
> When I try to navigate to the 'Behavioral Science' directory using
> `pushd projects/**/*beh*` and then pressing the TAB key,
> the shell correctly expands the path to 'projects/uni/2020/Behavioral\
> Science/'.
> When I try to navigate to that directory typing
> `projects/**/*beh*` and then pressing the TAB key,
> the shell expands the path to 'projects/uni/2020/Behavioral Science/'
> (without escaping the space)
> and thus changing the directory will fail.

Thanks for the report. It looks like this has been around since early 2008.
The fix is to tell readline we're doing filename completion when the
command word being completed contains a glob pattern.

Chet


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