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Re: bash completion mangles file names with newlines
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash completion mangles file names with newlines |
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:37:12 -0500 |
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On 2/23/22 11:34 AM, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> BASH completion cannot correctly handle file names containing newline
> characters.
As others have noted, bash-completion is a separate package.
But we might be able to figure out where it's not being appropriately
quoted if you enable `set -x' before attempting the completion. At
least that would give you a backtrace to send with your bug report.
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