Re: tab completing `/ cause weird errors messages.

[Davide Brini]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:27:59 +0200, Emanuele Torre
<torreemanuele6@gmail.com> wrote:


> Description:
>     Tab completing `/ (backtick-slash) causes bash to print lots of
>     weird error messages.

FWIW, this happens for any path, even not terminated by slash, at least on
my system:

$ cat `/usr/<tab><tab>
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/bin
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/bin
bin      -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/include
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/include
include  -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib
lib      -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib32
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib32
lib32    -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib64
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/lib64
lib64    -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/local
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/local
local    -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/sbin
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/sbin
sbin     -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/share
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/share
share    -l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/src
-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr/src
src


$ cat `/u<tab>-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/usr
sr/

$ cat `/tm<tab>-l: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/tmp
p/


$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)


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