Re: Tab Completion Broken

[Andras Simon]

On Nov 5, 2016 20:41, "Michael B Allen"  wrote:
> I have two files:
>
> SUM-12_schematic.pdf
> VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.1-1379776.x86_64.txt
>
> Doing:
>
> # ls SUM<tab>
>
> works as expected and completes the filename but doing:
>
> # sh -f VMw<tab>
>
> does not work. The filename is not completed.
>
> Clearly someone is trying to "help" me and not complete a file that sh
> is not normally known to be used with sh.
>
> Can someone tell me how to disable this "helpful" behavior?

Maybe the second half of this post:

https://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disable-bash-autocompletion-on-ubun...

Tab Completion Broken

[Michael B Allen]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Andras Simon  wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2016 20:41, "Michael B Allen"  wrote:
> > Can someone tell me how to disable this "helpful" behavior?
>
> Maybe the second half of this post:
>
> https://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disable-bash-autocompletion-on-ubun...

Perfect. Added complete -r to the end of ~/.bashrc does the trick.

Thanks,
Mike

Tab Completion Broken

[Tom H]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Andras Simon  wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2016 20:41, "Michael B Allen"  wrote:
> > I have two files:
> >
> > SUM-12_schematic.pdf
> > VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.1-1379776.x86_64.txt
> >
> > Doing:
> >
> > # ls SUM<tab>
> >
> > works as expected and completes the filename but doing:
> >
> > # sh -f VMw<tab>
> >
> > does not work. The filename is not completed.
> >
> > Clearly someone is trying to "help" me and not complete a file that sh
> > is not normally known to be used with sh.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how to disable this "helpful" behavior?
>
> Maybe the second half of this post:
>
> https://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disable-bash-autocompletion-on-ubun...

Rather than switch off bash completion completely, you can prefix "sh
-f ..." with a '" for regular tab completion to take over.