On 2010-04-17, Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Following this link (
> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_1
>
> ) and if I type at the terminal '. /etc/bash_completion' everything
> works top-notch. However, if I put the above command in the global
> .profile or in my user's profile, after typing my user/pass in gdm, I
> get errors. If I put '. /etc/bash_completion' in ~/.profile, I get the
> 'your session lasted less than 10 seconds' and the reason is 'cannot
> open /etc/bash_completion' . If I put the command in /etc/profile, I get
> some errors about mismatched parantheses. Am I doing something wrong?
> It's annoying to type '. /etc/bash_profile' everytime. Thanks in advance.
>
> Yours,
>
>
I have the following stanza in my ~/.bashrc file:
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
It is already in the default .bashrc file (see /etc/skel/.bashrc); you
just need to uncomment it.
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Liam O'Toole
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