Bug 117770 – bash_completion breaks with bash-3.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 11:44:47 UTC]

After pressing TAB after ssh:

nelchael@nelchael ~$ ssh sed: -e expression #1, char 20: unterminated `s' command

Expected host list is available after pressing the TAB key again, but the sed error is still there.

Versions:

[ebuild   R   ] app-shells/bash-3.1-r2  USE="nls -afs -bashlogger -build -unicode" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] app-shells/bash-completion-20050721  0 kB

[Comment 1 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 11:46:09 UTC]

Created attachment 76172 [details, diff]
bash_completion-ssh-bash-3.1.patch

This patch solves the problem.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-09 02:20:51 UTC]

*** Bug 118367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Ed Catmur 2006-01-15 22:45:26 UTC]

Created attachment 77230 [details, diff]
117770.bugs.gentoo.org-bash-3-ssh.patch

No, that patch breaks taking aliases from config files. This patch should work.

There is a problem with bash parsing, though.

[Comment 4 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2006-01-16 13:29:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)

> There is a problem with bash parsing, though.

Exactly.  AFAICS there's nothing wrong with bash-completion as it is now.  I'd rather see bash-3.1 fixed than applying a workaround to bash-completion.

[Comment 5 Ed Catmur 2006-01-17 00:46:29 UTC]

See bug 119261 for cause, link and patch.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-01 14:19:13 UTC]

*** Bug 121225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2006-03-02 04:03:46 UTC]

I guess upstream has decided to work around the bash-3.1 issues instead of pushing to get the real problem fixed.  20060301 is in portage.