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Bash completion for dd if & of arguments

Asked by Ing. Radomír Polách

Some time ago bash completion of path for dd arguments if & of stopped working.
If I write dd if=a and press tab it erases if= and the remaining text is dd a.
Using latest stable Ubuntu (3.11.0-15-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 9 18:17:04 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run :

source ~/.bashrc

Does it start working?

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#2

Does it work if you use "dd if='a' of 'b' " instead of "dd if=a of=b"? Enacesing the arguments in quotes might fix this.

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Ing. Radomír Polách (exander77) said : 		#3

source ~/.bashrc does not work.
Quotes work, why is that?

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#4

I haven't a clue, sorry. I got the idea becuase it's previously worked for me before!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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Helmo (helmo) said : 		#6

There is a debian bug about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742126