Re: complete -p does not quote function names correctly.

[Koichi Murase]

> Description:
>         bash allows declaring functions with a name that contains `*'.
>         In the output of `complete -p', those function names will not be
>         quoted which makes the output of `complete -p' output not safe
>         to pass to `eval' or output to a file that will be read by
>         `source'.
>
>         I think bash should quote the arguments to `-F' in the output of
>         `complete -p'.

Can you try the devel branch? There has been a related fix about a year ago:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-06/msg00140.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=5a0e5b7b2862394cefccb919cddabf24f0ab4730

With the devel version, the commands you have provided produce the
following result:

$ bash-dev --norc
$ a*x () { echo hi ;}
$ complete -W 'something something' -F 'a*x' hello
$ complete -p hello
complete -W 'something something' -F 'a*x' hello

--
Koichi