FS#12843 - [pdksh] won't escape shell special characters on tab complete

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Timo Myyrä (zmyrgel) - Sunday, 18 January 2009, 11:26 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 03 July 2010, 15:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Pdksh won't escape shell special characters on tab completion.
Completion works but it won't escape any shell special characters such as space.

Additional info:
pdksh-5.2.14-4

Steps to reproduce:
Install pdksh and try to tab complete a filename with a space on it.

Sample, used tab complete to fill out file name and it didn't escape the space.
$ touch test\ file
$ cat test file
cat: test: No such file or directory
cat: file: No such file or directory
$
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Saturday, 03 July 2010, 15:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  use mksh since this one is unmaintained. we can't do anything about that and is not a packaging bug
Comment by Matthew Gyurgyik (pyther) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 19:19 GMT
Is this still an issue, does it work on other distributions?
Comment by Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos) - Saturday, 24 April 2010, 18:16 GMT
Use mksh (currently in AUR) instead, pdksh is not developed any more since 1999 and mksh is its actively developed successor. It doesn’t only tab-complete spaces correctly but all kinds of weird characters (square brackets were the hardest to fix).

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