bash auto-complete separates strings

Question

Let's say I'd like to cd to the directory containing all albums by the artist "The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger" so I start typing

cd ~/Music/The\ Ghost

and hit [TAB] [TAB]. At this point bash complete changes my command to

cd ~/Music/The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

which is useless. I'd like it to complete it to

cd ~/Music/The\ Ghost\ of\ a\ Saber\ Tooth\ Tiger/

instead. I've already tried transplanting a different /etc/bash_completion, which fixed the problem but now I get a bunch of bash: [: =: unary operator expected errors when I start a new shell. Any suggestions?

I'm using bash version 4.2.25, on elementaryOS Luna (a fork of Ubuntu 12.04)

Answer 1

I would assume that you could remove the package and re-install it to get the default files back:

sudo apt-get purge bash-completion && sudo apt-get install bash-completion