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#1 2009-05-03 02:13:52
- Peasantoid
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bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
A little background. When I used Ubuntu (up until maybe a week ago), almost all the commands had special autocompletion "rules" as I guess you might call them. For instance, I could type "sudo apt-get install libsdl", hit tab twice, and get a list of all the available packages related to libsdl.
How can I configure this in Arch?
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#2 2009-05-03 02:24:11
- s3kt0r
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
Hi, check this link out: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bas … Completion
Relevant part of .bashrc:
# enable auto completion on sudo commands
complete -cf sudo
# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fiLast edited by s3kt0r (2009-05-03 02:32:06)
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#3 2009-05-03 02:53:06
- peart
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
The bash-completion package adds a file in /etc/profile.d which gets sourced at login time. There is no need to add anything to ~/.bashrc.
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#4 2009-05-03 03:28:12
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
Hey thanks, it worked!
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#5 2009-05-04 21:27:22
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
The bash-completion package adds a file in /etc/profile.d which gets sourced at login time. There is no need to add anything to ~/.bashrc.
Cool m8, didn't know that. 
Thanks 
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#6 2009-05-23 22:31:03
- zatricky
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
The bash-completion package adds a file in /etc/profile.d which gets sourced at login time. There is no need to add anything to ~/.bashrc.
Care to adjust the wiki? Right now it specifically states that the .bashrc needs to be modified.
pacman russian roulette: yes | pacman -Rcs $(pacman -Q | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
(yes, I know its broken)
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#7 2009-05-24 03:46:52
- peart
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Re: bash: How can I get Ubuntu-style autocompletion?
It's done, zatricky.
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