Problem with bash filename completetion

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:37:42 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote:

> mkdir -p vb-2015-10-15_07\:51\:53-win10/Machines
> 
> and then used <TAB> to complete:
> 
> ls vb-<TAB>
> 
> and got
> 
> ls vb-2015-10-15_07\:51\:53-win10/
> 
> and with
> 
> ls vb-<TAB>/M<TAB>
> ls vb-2015-10-15_07\:51\:53-win10/Machines/

Which works good enough, doesn't it?

> But if I wrote
> 
> ls vb-2015-10-15_07:51:53-win10/M<TAB>
> ls: can't access vb-2015-10-15_07:51:53-win10/M: The file or the
> directory does not exist
> 
> The reason for this is you need to escape : with \ so that the shell
> understand that : is a character.

You can try the same with a few other characters, such as ';' instead of ':'.
Different symptoms, but also requires escaping.

Or quotes: ls "vb-2015-10-15_07:51:53-win1"/M<TAB>