| Art Alexion on 16 Jun 2005 14:40:09 -0000 |
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Art Alexion wrote: >Stephen Gran wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:07:06AM -0400, Art Alexion said: >> >> >> >> >>>I upgraded from warty to hoary a couple of weeks ago, and have a couple >>>of issues I can't seem to resolve on my own. >>> >>> 1. _Bash Completion_ -- With warty, bash completion worked on >>> executable parameters. For example, if I did a "sudo apt-get >>> update", completion worked not just for "sudo" but also "apt-get" >>> and "update". Now, only document parameters are supported by bash >>> completion. For example, with "gedit ~/Documents/document", >>> "document" will complete as well as gedit. I don't think this is >>> a bash 3 problem, but rather a configuration problem. Any ideas >>> how to fix? >>> >>> >>> >>> >Looking at ~/.bashrc reminded me to look at /etc/bash_completion. Could >this section of the latter file be the problem? > ># start of section containing compspecs that can be handled within bash > ># user commands see only users >complete -u su usermod userdel passwd chage write chfn groups slay w > ># group commands see only groups >[ -n "$bash205" ] && complete -g groupmod groupdel newgrp 2>/dev/null > >"sudo a" won't complete to apt but rather to document beginning with "a" >in the user home directory. > > > >>A second thought - does apt-get upd<tab> tab complete without the sudo? >>If so, it is probably a bug in the implementation (completion is trying >>to complete arguments to sudo rather than apt-get or something). It >>does work well here (Debian unstable). >> >> >> >> >No. "apt-g" will not complete to "apt-get", "apt-get u" completes to >"apt-get unshorten"! > > For other Ubuntu users with this bash completion problem, I have solved it easily. Here's how. Edit /etc/bash_completion. Search for the following block of text: # start of section containing compspecs that can be handled within bash # user commands see only users complete -u su usermod userdel passwd chage write chfn groups slay w # group commands see only groups [ -n "$bash205" ] && complete -g groupmod groupdel newgrp 2>/dev/null Comment out those lines. (They may be great with systems where root commands are executed via "su", but they just mess things up on "sudo"-systems.) Log out and back in to effect changes. Bash-completion should now work for root-only executables while in user mode. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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