Re: Tab completion results in "unexpected EOF" error and crash

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/15/21 6:56 AM, Xu Lu wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 4
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         I was typing a command and want to use <Tab> to complete a program name 
> after the following code:
>                 tig -C "$(dirname "$(base
>         but bash shows me a "bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching 
> `)'" error.
>         At first I found a similar issue in bash-completion here: 
> https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/189. But as I commented in that 
> issue report, I can reproduce this bug even in vanilla bash. So I am now 
> reporting this bug to bash.

Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce the double free, but it shouldn't
be reporting an error during completion.

Chet

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/