Bash completion broken when completing with equal sign

[rparree]

Hi,

Since a while my tab completion no longer works. At first i thought i was my own custom completion i created, but also when removing my own script it does no longer work as before.

The problem is simple:

$ export A=/<tab>
$ export /

SO when i type the tab key after the equal sign, the equal sign gets removed and i only see the value (in this case what i have typed so far: the /"

Any clues.

tx.,

[ajgreeny]

You need to escape the = with a \ as if it were, for example, a space.

$ export A\=/<tab>

[rparree]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I have never had to do that. I gave it a try anyway, but the problem is still there.

$ export ABC=/[TAB]

--becomes-->

$ export /

Same with "escaping" the =

[Habitual]

not going to work.

[rparree]

HI

What do you mean it is not going to work. It has worked for years, just suddenly it stopped. Note that under bash --norc it works.

tx.,

[steeldriver]

Your 'export ABC=/' example works for me as well (12.04, bash version 4.2.25(1)-release) - specifically it offers the contents of / as completions

Maybe you can narrow down the source of the issue by temporarily replacing your ~/.bashrc with the default one from /etc/skel, then doing the same for ~/.profile and so on up the rc file 'hierarchy'

[brian_woods]

I agree with rparree . It would work.

[rparree]

I found the problem. It was a completion script from Node's npm: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...10080#25010080