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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@greenend.org.uk>
Message-Id: <cOoGwD4Hu1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 21:52:55 +0100 (BST)
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: bash filename completion bug

Package: bash
Version: 1.14.6-4

The following is a tidied up typescript showing a bug in bash's
filename completion, exercised by the presence of an = in the
filename.

M-{ suffers the same trouble.

Script started on Mon Oct 14 21:45:15 1996
richard@sfere:richard$ ls -l /var/spool/news/out.going/
total 1
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news            0 Oct 14 18:56 news.elmail.co.uk
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news          442 Oct 14 18:56 news.elmail.co.uk=n
richard@sfere:richard$ cat /var/spool/news/out.going/news.elmail.co.uk^G
news.elmail.co.uk    news.elmail.co.uk=n  
richard@sfere:richard$ cat /var/spool/news/out.going/news.elmail.co.uk=^G
There are 164 possibilities.  Do you really
wish to see them all? (y or n)
richard@sfere:richard$ cat /var/spool/news/out.going/news.elmail.co.uk=
cat: /var/spool/news/out.going/news.elmail.co.uk=: No such file or directory
richard@sfere:richard$ cat /var/spool/news/out.going/news.elmail.co.uk=n
alt/fan/pratchett/15997 <53qm67$vuf$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
alt/fan/pratchett/15998 <53qn4o$e0$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
alt/fan/pratchett/15999 <53qn94$f2$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
alt/fan/pratchett/16000 <53qoie$vr$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
uk/media/tv/sf/babylon5/10574 <53qpa2$188$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
uk/media/tv/sf/babylon5/10575 <53qpno$1gc$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
uk/media/tv/sf/babylon5/10576 <53qpru$1hj$1@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
richard@sfere:richard$ dpkg -s bash
Package: bash
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: David P. Boswell <daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com>
Version: 1.14.6-4
Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.2.18-1), libreadline2 (>= 2.0-13), ncurses3.0 (>= 1.9.8a-4)
Conffiles:
 /etc/profile b6b6cc177565419a88817184f2359dca
 /etc/skel/.bash_profile 18e5408972632ff515bd0a7c136ab5d2
 /etc/skel/.bashrc 3e1c6c7f91bed264521a9b32811af651
Description: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.

richard@sfere:richard$ exit

-- 
Richard Kettlewell   richard@greenend.org.uk   richard@elmail.co.uk
                             http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/