https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c1 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Dr. Werner Fink 2011-02-21 12:51:45 UTC --- Ahmm ... a colon *has* special meaning in bash, btw: /suse/werner> bash werner@boole:~> mkdir /tmp/x:y werner@boole:~> cd /tmp/x\:y/ werner@boole:/tmp/x:y> could it be that you have bash-complition installed? Beside this: Who has submitted the bash 4.2.0(1)-rc1 to factory? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c3 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|coolo@novell.com | --- Comment #3 from Stephan Kulow 2011-02-21 14:05:14 CET --- excellent question - good thing I have nothing else to do. bash in factory is 4.1-23.1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c5 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Minor |Major --- Comment #5 from Ludwig Nussel 2011-02-21 14:22:59 CET --- The build service uses colons so we are kind of forced to deal with that. Bash doesn't do the right thing here. In your example it looks like it adds a backslash. That's what it did for me on 11.3 too but now it behaves in a unusable way. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c7 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #7 from Dr. Werner Fink 2011-02-21 13:35:15 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) Colons are special, even plain bash by complete -r cd can not handle this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c9 --- Comment #9 from Dr. Werner Fink 2011-02-21 13:41:45 UTC --- Beside this in patchlevel 9 there was a fix to repair the broken colon handling, that is make COMP_WORDBREAKS work even for breaking strings into arrays. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c11 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #11 from Dr. Werner Fink 2011-02-21 13:49:46 UTC --- Try your example as see that this does not work! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c13 --- Comment #13 from Ludwig Nussel 2011-02-21 14:54:25 CET --- try mkdir /tmp/x:z before you try the tab expansion -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c15 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #15 from Ludwig Nussel 2011-02-21 16:28:22 CET --- you need two directories with a common prefix to reproduce, ie in your example x:y and x:z. Then type cd x<tab>. If I remove the special handling for *\:* from /etc/profile.d/complete.bash then bash works as intended. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673763#c17 --- Comment #17 from Dr. Werner Fink 2011-02-21 15:53:50 UTC --- werner> cd /tmp/x:<tab> Display all 107 possibilities? (y or n) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.