Tab completion adds extra space after folder name

[TV4Fun]

Using gsutil 4.38 with Bash, tried on Mac and Linux, gsutil ls's tab completion leaves a space after filling in a folder name. This is typically not what you want if you plan to keep typing a larger path. The behavior should mimc that of GNU command line tools like ls, that autocomplete a folder name with a / after it but no space.

[catleeball]

Hi @TV4Fun !

Thanks for reporting this! I was able to reproduce the issue on my machine too. I'm going to poke around the tabcomplete logic and see what happened, and also tighten up our integration tests to catch this next time. 🙂

Thanks, Lee

[catleeball]

Note: this appears to occur for completions on local objects, but cloud object completion doesn't seem to append the space. Opened internal issue at b/132302733

[TV4Fun]

Odd, I am only getting it for objects in the cloud. I haven't tried it for local objects.

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[catleeball]

That's interesting, thanks for noting that, @TV4Fun ! Maybe cached completions? Testing some things out. 🙂

[catleeball]

Hi @TV4Fun ! Just keeping you posted, it looks like this is because we use gcloud SDK's completion.bash.inc file to power our completions: https://github.com/google-cloud-sdk/google-cloud-sdk/blob/master/completion.bash.inc

I'm picking around this completion file to see if we can make completion with gsutil and not break anything else in gcloud sdk, or alternatively if we should make our own completion file.

[tylertroy]

This is frustrating behavior, any solutions on the horizon?

$ gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 287.0.0
alpha 2020.03.30
beta 2020.03.30
bq 2.0.56
core 2020.03.30
gsutil 4.49
kubectl 2020.03.30

[catleeball]

Hey @tylertroy ! I'm working on a different team nowdays, but @NickGoog might be able to take a peek, or at least know someone who would have cycles to do so.

[NickGoog]

Hi, we have an open bug for the issue internally, but we're prioritizing something else that may obsolete it. Details aren't public, yet, sorry :(