Re: premature execution of command substution during tab completion solicitation

[Chet Ramey]

jared r r spiegel wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i386
> OS: openbsd4.0
> Compiler: cc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='openbsd4.0' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-unknown-openbsd4.0' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  -I/usr/local/include 
> -O2 -pipe
> uname output: OpenBSD iorek.ice-nine.org 4.0 IOREK.MP#1 i386
> Machine Type: i386-unknown-openbsd4.0
>
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         unexpected execution of incomplete (and currently syntactically 
> invalid?)
>         commandline by tab-completion subsystem

The problem is the completion system's attempt to run the directory
portion of the filename to be completed through the set of shell word
expansions.  It's not appropriate to perform command substitution in
that case.  This will be fixed for the next bash version.

Chet

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