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Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 10, 2011, 23:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20110510234552.GG1994@elie>
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<20110510223935.GA31029@goldbirke>
SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> Thinking a bit more about it, you don't even need to search history to
> reproduce.
Yep.  Doing
 $ . /etc/bash_completion
 $ ls<^A><TAB>
 bash: words: bad array subscript
produces the same.
> So the bug is definitely not git-related.  The fix would be a check
> along the lines of the first two hunks of the patch I just sent out.

FWIW it looks like the bash-completion lib adopted a different fix recently: see [1] (_init_completion: Indicate that completion should not continue if cword == 0, 2011-05-02).

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=457dbf6061eea5f2d1e3bccacf1691265f7321cc
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Message 9 of 12 in “[BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"”
  1. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  2. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  3. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  4. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  5. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  6. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  7. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  8. SZEDER GáborMay 10, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederMay 10, 2011
  10. SZEDER GáborMay 11, 2011
  11. completion: fix array indexing error after reverse history searchSZEDER Gábor, May 10, 2011
  12. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011

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