Comments on: Bash Shell Completing File, User and Host Names Automatically

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:27 +0000

@yoooo,

/home/you/.bashrc or /home/you/.bash_profile

yoooo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:35:22 +0000

so where do we put: source /etc/bash_completion ?

yj — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:30:04 +0000

cat ~le {hit ESC followed by ?}

hit tab key twice work same.

vivek — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:40:06 +0000

Scott,

It should work on Ubuntu and yes SHELLOPTS is set to emacs for me. I’m using bash 3.x

Scott Carlson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:22:28 +0000

Got it. You must have “set -o vi” by default. Ubuntu is “set -o emacs” by default.

Scott Carlson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:05:42 +0000

The example:
tar -zcvf /dev/rt0 /etc/*.conf {hit ESC followed by *}

Didn’t work on Ubuntu but did on FC4. Any ideas why?