Autocomplete is broken

shogun1234 · 02-04-2012, 01:59 AM

I install 2 debian (wheezy/sid) on virtualbox 4.1.8. Recently when I try to login to execute some tasks I notice there is an issue that seemingly the autocomplete (by pressing tab) feature seems not working correctly in 1 machine.

The one that has problem is when pressing tab
ls $JAVA_HOME/
would become
ls \$JAVA_HOME/

The other that works ok would expand env variable correclty
ls $JAVA_HOME
become
ls /path/to/java_home/

Where can I check for this issue?

Thanks

odiseo77 · 02-04-2012, 08:13 AM

Looks like a bug in bash-completion. The variable character ($) seems to be escaped instead of being replaced with the proper value (I can't confirm this on my system because I'm at work riht now using Windows). Unfortunately there's no information in this bug report as to how to workaround it. Maybe downgrading bash-completion, to the version before the one you're using, if apt-get/aptitude lets you do that? You could also join the bug report and see if it gets fixed for the next version.

Regards.