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How to change completion coloring when auto-completing subcommands in bash?

For unknown reason, it looks like the completion results are treated by bash as broken symlinks. And it looks really disturbing.

System info:

• Bash version: 4.4.23(1)-release


• OS: Manjaro Linux

Edit: I understand that by setting off the colored-stats GNU Readline option in ~/.inputrc the coloring will be turned off altogether:

set colored-stats off

But that would also disable other coloring, such as for directory, when auto-completing.

I think this is weird because the broken-symlink-like coloring happens on my Manjaro Linux box at home, but not my Arch Linux box at work. Both are applied with the same bashrc and inputrc. But I didn't check for other potential difference for now.

Edit again: Pasting my ~/.inputrc for reference:

$include /etc/inputrc

$if mode=emacs

# cycle through possible completions

TAB: menu-complete

# complete until the end of common prefix before cycling through possible completions

set menu-complete-display-prefix on

# show possible completions if more than one completions are possible

set show-all-if-ambiguous on

set show-all-if-unmodified on

# do not duplicate characters after the cursor if they consist partially of possbile completion

set skip-completed-text on

# display colors when doing completion as `ls` does

set colored-stats on

# color tab-completion matched prefix part

set colored-completion-prefix on

# fuck off stty key bindings. (stty -a)

set bind-tty-special-chars off

"C-w": unix-word-rubout

"eh": kill-region

"eH": copy-region-as-kill

"C-x'": "''C-b"

"C-x`": "``C-b"

"C-x"": """C-b"

"C-x{": "{}C-b"

"C-x[": "C-b"

"C-x(": "()C-b"

"C-x0": vi-eWord

"eF": "C-x0C-f"

"eB": vi-bWord

"eD": "e eFeh"

$endif