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Re: bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace
- From: ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:37:51 +0000
- Subject: Re: bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace
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George Prekas writes:
> On 23/02/2015 17:14, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I _think_ this is a regression, but my memory for this sort of thing
>> is terrible.
>> ...
> I had the same trouble as you describe and I was using your
> workaround, but then I realized that find is broken in the same way.
> So, I did some research and found out that Debian and Ubuntu have
> solved this problem by patching /etc/bash_completion as described in
> the following URLs:
>
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835>
>
> <https://code.launchpad.net/~jjo/bash-completion/quote_readline_by_ref_fixes/+merge/210930>
>
> I think Cygwin should incorporate the specified patch file in its
> bash-completion package.
Great sleuthing, thank you very much. Over to the bash maintainer,
please.
ht
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