Bug 1036694

Summary: path completion does not handle symlinks well
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Component: bashAssignee: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala>
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Description Michal Hlavinka 2013-12-02 13:41:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
file path completion gives incorrect results when path contains symlink

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.2.45-1.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.prepare environment

$ mkdir foo bar
$ ln -s ../foo bar/foo
$ touch abcd foo/abfoo bar/abbar

2.try it
$ cd bar/foo 

I) $ file ../ab<TAB> 
-> $ file ../abbar 
-> ../abbar: ERROR: cannot open `../abbar' (No such file or directory)
Error is correct, such file does not exist

II) $ file ../abc<TAB>
-> $ file ../abc - no completion, but ../abcd exists
$ file ../abcd
../abcd: empty

Actual results:
tab completion does not see some files and completes name to nonexistent files

Expected results:
tab completion working with symlinks

Additional info:
It works in both ksh and mksh
Comment 1 Ondrej Oprala 2014-01-10 09:20:47 UTC 
Thanks for the report. This is an expected behaviour of bash. The behaviour you specified can be achieved by using 'set -o physical'.