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Offline nitram

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no sudo tab autocomplete
« on: July 22, 2016, 03:49:57 PM »
Posting in TC base as this affects TC and dCore. Tab autocomplete works with commands as regular user, but not with sudo, just file pathways. For example, typing cho+tab autocompletes to chown. Typing sudo cho+tab does not autocomplete. On Ubuntu and Debian sudo commands autocomplete using bash. Could not find answer googling, [solved] related to bash, bash-complete, bashrc. Sometimes i type command then Ctrl-a to prepend sudo, workaround. Is it possible to enable sudo command autocomplete in base TC, or just a limitation of Ash?

Offline curaga

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Re: no sudo tab autocomplete
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2016, 02:44:54 AM »
It's done using bash's extensible autocompletion, which ash does not have. So, to get that you need to install bash and the completion file for sudo.
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Re: no sudo tab autocomplete
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2016, 11:27:46 AM »
Thanks for reply, will stick with Ash, appreciate it's responsiveness.