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bash-completion package

strange bahavior on directory completion with bash built-in commands

Bug #716008 reported by Mingming Ren on 2011-02-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #752193: Installation of the acroread package causes completion to treat directories like files with some commands. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Partner Packaging	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	bash-completion (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: bash-completion

The recent upgrade of 1.3 version has a strange behavior on directory completion.
For example, with 1.2 version bash-completion,
$ ls /us
then TAB will complete with
$ ls /usr/
Then a second TAB will prompt files in the /usr/ directory.

But with 1.3 version,
$ ls /us TAB
gives
$ ls /usr
It's then impossible to prompt files in the directory.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2011-02-10:

#1

This is due to changes in the 1.3 upstream version of bash-completion I think. In the diff there is some talk about dynamically toggling "-O filenames".

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2011-02-11:

#2

This new behaviour is horrible

Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2011-02-11

Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Mingming Ren (portis25) wrote on 2011-02-23:

#3

This turn out be to a bug in acroread package.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16980

The workaround is
sed -i "s/_filedir/_filedir_acroread/" /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh

and it works.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2011-02-23:

#4

> and it works

Indeed.

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David Marín (davefx) wrote on 2011-03-01:

#5

The workaround works properly: it is a bug in acroread package, not in bash-completion package.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2011-03-19:

#6

Good catch! I can confirm that if I just
drop /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh, then it starts working
correctly again. I'm not sure where to assign this though, as that's
from the partner repo. I'm not sure what the correct project is there.

affects partner-packaging
status confirmed
affects ubuntu/bash-completion
status invalid

Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Invalid

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Bram Swenson (bram-craniumisajar) wrote on 2011-04-10:

#7

The sed workaround worked perfectly for me as well.

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أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote on 2011-04-10: Re: [Bug 716008] Re: strange bahavior on directory completion with bash built-in commands

#8

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 05:09:30PM -0000, Bram Swenson wrote:
> The sed workaround worked perfectly for me as well.
---end quoted text---

Removing acroread fixed that indeed !

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Ktron (kevin-hamer) wrote on 2011-04-12:

#9

I also suffered from this bug, and after some discussion in #bash and #ubuntu+1, figured out the right search terms to figure this out.

The sed workaround works fine here.

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Dan Joakim Eiworth (jeiworth) wrote on 2011-04-17:

#10

I also had the same problem, confirming that the sed workaround works fine.

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frankie (frankie-etsetb) wrote on 2011-04-20:

#11

apt-get remove adobereader-enu solved it for me.

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belltoy (belltoy) wrote on 2011-04-29:

#12

My system was installed from beta2 livecd.
But I don't have /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh, and I didn't install adobereader-enu package either.

What can I do to fix the problem?

Tks

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Mingming Ren (portis25) wrote on 2011-04-29:

#13

It has been fixed in the latest acroread:

acroread (9.4.2-0natty1) natty; urgency=low

* Not allowing the autocompletion script to redefine _filedir as it was
causing problems with the proper autocompeltion of dirs (LP: #752193)

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belltoy (belltoy) wrote on 2011-05-01:

#14

Sorry, it do has been fixed.
I got this issue because I add a third-party completion script.

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Philippe Mermod (h-philippe) wrote on 2011-09-27:

#15

Hi, same problem, which reading this trend I realise appeared just after I installed acrobat reader. The sed workaround + rebooting made the job. Thanks!

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