[SOLVED] sudo & bash completion

Allan · 2008-03-18 04:34:14

I have trouble with bash completion and sudo. e.g. if I type "shut" and hit tab the "shutdown" get autocompleted. However, "sudo shut" <tab> does not work. Any ideas?

Last edited by Allan (2008-03-18 04:55:05)

hacosta · 2008-03-18 04:46:31

add this to your .bashrc

complete -cf sudo

Allan · 2008-03-18 04:54:47

Thanks. that fixed it!

Purch · 2008-05-27 11:42:36

I just noticed that adding

complete -cf sudo

to ~/.bashrc breaks completion. As user

$ cd .i
.icons/ .inkscape/ .inputrc .inputrc~ .irssi/

Who wants to cd to a file? Files are not listed if you remove 'complete -cf sudo' line. Any other way to include the sudo to completion?

Allan · 2008-05-27 12:02:22

Edit: Don't you get that even without this line... I just tested both and it seems to happen.

Last edited by Allan (2008-05-27 12:13:13)

Abelian · 2008-05-27 12:46:20

I thought bash completion was dumb, ie it had no concept of the arguments before in completing a filename. It would be neat if it did though!

Purch · 2008-05-27 16:38:12

hmm, it worked in ssh connection and now I tested it

$ ssh localhost
$ cd .i
.icons/    .inkscape/ .irssi/

So this is related to ssh then. But still weird and it is not affected by 'complete -cf sudo' line.

Last edited by Purch (2008-05-27 16:39:03)

Ramses de Norre · 2008-05-27 16:55:06

zsh seems to have this clever auto-complete, it doesn't propose files to me on completing cd.

litemotiv · 2008-12-08 11:46:07

hacosta wrote:

add this to your .bashrc
complete -cf sudo

Does anyone know the zsh equivalent for this?

Daenyth · 2008-12-08 13:55:49

For me, bash doesn't try to cd into files either with bash completion.

Dieter@be · 2008-12-08 17:47:20

Abelian wrote:

I thought bash completion was dumb, ie it had no concept of the arguments before in completing a filename. It would be neat if it did though!

Maybe you mean bash' tab completion.
- tab completion is the built-in tab completion in bash (and other shells)
- bash completion is an additional feature for bash (eg package bash-completion ). I'm not sure if it's installed by default

skottish · 2008-12-08 19:39:28

What's strange for me is it previously worked in .bashrc. Then it just sort of stopped. Now I have it wrapped in .bashrc and it works:

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    complete -cf sudo
fi

litemotiv · 2008-12-11 22:53:46

litemotiv wrote:

hacosta wrote:
add this to your .bashrc
complete -cf sudo
Does anyone know the zsh equivalent for this?

Actually, i meant sudo completion when going back in the zsh history, but now i'm getting more offtopic..

Nezmer · 2008-12-12 19:59:19

Is there a way to enable bash completion with aliases .
I use 'Q' as an alias for 'pacman -Q' .

In zsh :
$ Q lx (then tab)

$ Q lx
lxappearance    lxlauncher      lxrandr         lxsplit         lxterminal      
lxde-common     lxpanel         lxsession-lite  lxtask

'completion works '

In bash :
$ pacman -Q lx (then 2 tabs)

$ pacman -Q lx
lxappearance    lxlauncher      lxrandr         lxsplit         lxterminal      
lxde-common     lxpanel         lxsession-lite  lxtask

'completion works '
but with :
$ Q lx (then 2 tabs)
'It doesn't work'

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