[CentOS] Bash completion thrown by quoted option args?

[wwp]

Hello isdtor,


On Fri, 24 May 2019 14:33:29 +0100 isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:

> wwp writes:
> > Hello isdtor,
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 May 2019 09:33:55 +0100 isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Leroy Tennison writes:  
> > > > I am going to take a really wild guess and say "Try replacing the outermost quotes with single quotes or escape the double quotes around the numeral 1".  Your second example has double quotes within double quotes and I'm wondering if that's getting rendered as "yum --debuglevel="      1      " install ..." (extra space added for emphasis).    
> > >  
> > > The outermost quotes are not part of the command, they were only a means to set off the command typed from the surrounding text.
> > > 
> > > Single quotes around the option arg don't work either.  
> > 
> > In that specific example (--debuglevel="1"), you don't need the quotes.
> > But, if that's just an example and you really use command-line
> > arguments that need to be quoted, for instance because they contain
> > spaces, maybe you could just use \ to protect spaces like:
> >  # command "a b" c
> > would become:
> >  # command a\ b c (2 params)
> > which is different from:
> >  # command a b c (3 params)
> > just escaping the space to prevent bash from considering "a\ b" as two
> > words).
> > 
> > Also, maybe it's bash completion for yum that is your problem, did you
> > try disabling yum-specific completion? That would let you still the
> > ability to use path completion.  
>  
> In my case, the argument being quoted (different option) is a "*". Your method of escaping instead of quoting works.

Glad that it works! Escaping is often an alternate method to quoting,
makes things less readable but saves you in some conditions.


> I couldn't find anything yum-specific in bash-completion.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -ql bash-completion |grep yum
> [root at localhost ~]# 

Bash allows modular completion, this is why is may suggest command-line
arguments (switches) to `yum` or other commands, see:
 # yum up<TAB>
update   upgrade
It proposes update and upgrades, because bash completion has been told
how yum works.

Unfortunately I don't have any pointers that would document all
this properly, but to say that it's all in /etc/bash_completion.d and:
 # rpm -qf /etc/bash_completion.d/yum-utils.bash
yum-utils-1.1.31-50.el7.noarch
and 
 # rpm -qa|grep bash-completion
bash-completion-extras-2.1-11.el7.noarch
bash-completion-2.1-6.el7.noarch

Here I disabled app-specific completion in my ~/.bash_profile 'cause it
might slow down user interaction and sometimes simply cause issues. To
get the expanding of paths only (as in bash 2 at least, IIRC):
 # complete -D -o default
See `man bash` and look for the `complete` command to know more.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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