Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: TAB completion of filenames beginning with colon is broken Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:11:48 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 46 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1560453128 14099 209.51.188.17 (13 Jun 2019 19:12:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Jason Tyler , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:cc:subject:to:references:from:openpgp :autocrypt:organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; 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Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=7/90, host=mpv2-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=7/90, refid=2.7.2:2019.6.13.180617:17:7.944, ip=, rules=__YOUTUBE_RCVD, __X_GOOGLE_DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __HAS_REFERENCES, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY_DOLLAR, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __COURIER_PHRASE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_1700_1799, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.227 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15047 On 6/13/19 2:56 AM, Jason Tyler wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 3 > Release Status: release > > Description: > if a filename begins with ":", then tab completion will turn the colon into > ":\:" This is a pretty old question, old enough to have its own entry in the no-longer-updated bash FAQ: E13) Why does filename completion misbehave if a colon appears in the filename? Filename completion (and word completion in general) may appear to behave improperly if there is a colon in the word to be completed. The colon is special to readline's word completion code: it is one of the characters that breaks words for the completer. Readline uses these characters in sort of the same way that bash uses $IFS: they break or separate the words the completion code hands to the application-specific or default word completion functions. The original intent was to make it easy to edit colon-separated lists (such as $PATH in bash) in various applications using readline for input. This is complicated by the fact that some versions of the popular `bash-completion' programmable completion package have problems with the default completion behavior in the presence of colons. The current set of completion word break characters is available in bash as the value of the COMP_WORDBREAKS variable. Removing `:' from that value is enough to make the colon not special to completion: COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//:} You can also quote the colon with a backslash to achieve the same result temporarily. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/