[SOLVED] autocomplete

[thrylosg1]

Hello,

I did a clean installation of kubuntu 10.04 64bit and i have a problem with autocompleting commands when pressing tab.

I noticed this when I try to do sudo apt-get ... and nothing happens

I tried using 'complete sudo -c' as i found on another post somewhere but it still doesnt work as before.

eg when i try the following

$ sudo apt-get di
diff diff3 dig dir dircolors directomatic dirname dirs dirsplit disown

it doesnt show me 'dist-upgrade' but when i type the command it works. It used to work ok with 9.10 32bit i had before.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[thrylosg1]

Re: autocomplete

anyone else had this problem?

[GreyGeek]

Re: autocomplete

If "bash-completion" is not installed then install it.

If it is installed then try this solution.

If that doesn't work then remove "completely remove" bash-completion and reinstall it.

[thrylosg1]

Re: autocomplete

Thank you very much GreyGeek that link solved the problem.

It seems that bash-completion was commented out in /etc/bash.bashrc for some reason.

[Snowhog]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

My /etc/bash.bashrc shows:

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
#fi

My ~/.bashrc shows:

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi

[GreyGeek]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

Mine too.

/etc/bash.bashrc applies to all people while ~/.bashrc is only for the home account.

I suspected that his ~/.bashrc was missing or corrupted.

[thrylosg1]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

This is the only thing in my ~/.bashrc

$ cat .bashrc
alias ls="ls --color=always"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

[Telengard]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

This is the only thing in my ~/.bashrc

$ cat .bashrc
alias ls="ls --color=always"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Looks like your ~/.bashrc has been overwritten somehow. You should be able to generate a fresh copy by simply creating a new user and copying their ~/.bashrc to your own home folder. Make sure to change ownership of the .bashrc to yourself after the copy is complete. For example:

cp -iv /home/newuser/.bashrc /home/thrylosg1 && chown thrylosg1:thrylosg1 .bashrc

The options "-iv" makes cp intelligently prompt you before overwriting the existing file and causes it to verbosely explain exactly what it has done. It is a nice safety precaution when you don't want cp to silently overwrite existing files.

If chown complains with "Operation not permitted" then just prefix it with sudo and enter your login password when prompted.

sudo chown thrylosg1:thrylosg1 .bashrc

Of course after you have retrieved .bashrc you can delete the new user if you like. Or you can keep it around in case it may come in handy again for other reasons.

HTH

[GreyGeek]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

Overwritten is an understatement!

Here's mine:

jerry@sonyvgnfw140e:~$ cat .bashrc
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace

# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize

# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"

# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes

if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
color_prompt=yes
else
color_prompt=
fi
fi

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
;;
*)
;;
esac

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'

alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi

# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'

# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi

[thrylosg1]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

This is the only thing in my ~/.bashrc

$ cat .bashrc
alias ls="ls --color=always"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Looks like your ~/.bashrc has been overwritten somehow. You should be able to generate a fresh copy by simply creating a new user and copying their ~/.bashrc to your own home folder. Make sure to change ownership of the .bashrc to yourself after the copy is complete. For example:

cp -iv /home/newuser/.bashrc /home/thrylosg1 && chown thrylosg1:thrylosg1 .bashrc

The options "-iv" makes cp intelligently prompt you before overwriting the existing file and causes it to verbosely explain exactly what it has done. It is a nice safety precaution when you don't want cp to silently overwrite existing files.

If chown complains with "Operation not permitted" then just prefix it with sudo and enter your login password when prompted.

sudo chown thrylosg1:thrylosg1 .bashrc

Of course after you have retrieved .bashrc you can delete the new user if you like. Or you can keep it around in case it may come in handy again for other reasons.

HTH

thanks. I did that worked fine.

[Telengard]

Re: [SOLVED] autocomplete

thanks. I did that worked fine.

You are welcome, of course

Now ~/.bashrc should look the same as GreyGeek's.