weird bash completion

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/29/2011 11:11 AM, John5342 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 07:14, Joachim Backes
> <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>  wrote:
>> Having a file in my home called :0-greeter.log
>>
>> If pressing "rm :<tab>", the bash completes:
>>
>> rm :\:0-greeter.log
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Why the : is escaped at second position?
>> 2. Why the : is escaped at all?
>>
>> That's a known issue?
>
> I discovered the same thing with the '=' symbol in strings. I also
> noticed today that if a file has spaces if i type "rm some<tab>" it
> completes as "rm some file with spaces" rather than "rm some\ file\
> with\ spaces" as it used to.
>

This is often caused by the adobe reader bash completion file.  I thought it 
was fixed with the latest bash-completion updates though.

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