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Tab completion doesn't complete paths with escaped space

For a while now I'm experiencing an annoying bash-completion problem, namely it doesn't work when a path contains an escaped space. For example, I am in /cygdrive/c and type

$ cd Pro

pressing Tab key completes to "cd Program", pressing twice shows all directories with this "Program" prefix:

Program Files/       Program Files (x86)/ ProgramData/

I want to cd to "Program Files" so I type

$ cd Program\

(with space after backslash) and from now on pressing Tab does nothing. It used to work some time ago but I cannot identify when exactly it stopped. Any hints on what can be the cause of this?

Solution

  • It looks like the there is a problem with the bash_completion package. I was having your problem with cd but not other programs like ls. You can either remove that package or put complete -r cd in your .bashrc.