bash auto completion

[Todd Zullinger]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 21:42 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Jonathan MERCIER wrote:
>>> why default bahrc do not contain all file in /etc/bash_completion.d ?
>>> me i add in bashrc:
>>> for file in /etc/bash_completion.d/*; do . $file; done
>>>
>>> instead . /etc/bash_compeltion => because do not works file do not
>>> exist!
>>
>> This question is probably better suited the the users list¹.
>>
>> But, I'm going to guess that you don't have the bash-completion
>> package installed.  That is what provides /etc/bash_completion.
>>
>> ¹ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users/
>
> I don't think this is quite true, since it looks like the contents
> of /etc/bash_completion.d are installed by various RPMs.  Maybe this is
> what's causing confusion.

Packages may drop bash_completion files in /etc/bash_completion.d and
not require bash-completion.  So they own that dir.  To enable
bash-completion fully, install the bash-completion package.

I still think this is a users list question though. :)

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