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fastrespawn

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Registered: 2022-02-24

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TAB not completing commands on ArchLinux?

On Ubuntu, I used to type something like "sudo apt remove gno" and press "TAB", which would list everything that matched gno in the name, like any gnome app
The same thing while using pacman or other commands in Arch Linux doesn't work, only when trying to find directories TAB completion work

Is it possible to configure this ?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: TAB not completing commands on ArchLinux?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bash#C … nd_options

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ishaanbhimwal

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Registered: 2022-01-21

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Re: TAB not completing commands on ArchLinux?

Install the "bash-completion" package and add this line to bottom of your "~/.bashrc" file:

[ -r /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ] && . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

coxe87b

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From: Canberra

Registered: 2019-12-08

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Re: TAB not completing commands on ArchLinux?

There is nothing wrong with the previous answers, but just to add some extra info;

Bash is the default, so bash-completions is the logical answer, but it is shell specific. Therefore you would install zsh-completions if you use zsh as your shell, etc.

I believe the Arch live USB installer still uses zsh as the shell, so if testing there, you may have a different result.

You can list your installed shells by typing;

 chsh -l 

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