From:	Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Tab completion in BASH 2.04
Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:20:04 +0000
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Unfortunately, I think I have found a bug in BASH 2.04 tab completion.

Tab completion works fine, even with spaces in the name, unless the
path starts with a dos style drive name.  DJGPP port of BASH 2.03 does
not have this problem:

bash-2.03$ cd c:/
bash-2.03$ mkdir "foo bar"
bash-2.03$ rmdir c:/foo

 press TAB

bash-2.03$ rmdir c\:/foo\ bar/
bash-2.03$

...

bash-2.04$ cd c:/
bash-2.04$ mkdir "foo bar"
bash-2.04$ rmdir c:/foo

 press TAB

bash-2.04$ rmdir c:/foo bar/

The directory is obviously found ok, but the colon and space have not
been escaped.

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