On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Matteo Riva <mura...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that in a shell I can use tab-complete even on command
> arguments, as in:
>
> $ aptitude sa<TAB>
>
> will expand to
>
> $ aptitude safe-upgrade
>
> How does this work? Where does bash look for possible completion
> candidates? Has it always been like this or is this a recently new
> feature (I could swear that this didn't work in the past)?
>
Install bash-completion
and uncoment this in ~/.bashrc
<code>
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
</code
in ~/.bashrc
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Reinaldo Orrego
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