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bash-completion package

  1. Bug #1288031
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1288031

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JuanJo Ciarlante (jjo) wrote :

FTR the issue is _quote_readline_by_ref expanding an empty var to '', see:

$ _quote_readline_by_ref '' foo
$ echo $foo
''

Above MP adds a special case to avoid quoting if empty.