Hi Graham,

You ARE using dash. I will point it out inline in your previous reply

On 5/16/07, Graham Petley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   I think I am using bash.

$ which bash
/bin/bash
$ cd /bin
$ ls -l *ash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 676836 2006-09-20 00:24 bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  79912 2006-07-11 21:31 dash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 2007-01-28 15:24 rbash -> bash
$ ls -l sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-01-28 15:24 sh -> dash


Just up here... your /bin/sh is pointing to dash. Thats where its picked up.
Just "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
dash" and answer the single question "No". Viola, you're back to bash as
/bin/sh



  If I type sh or dash then I get a weird prompt like

\w \!$ \[\e]0;\w\a\]

and command completion doesn't work at all. My Linux book says that on
many
Linux systems sh is symbolically linked to bash, but it seems that on mine
it
is linked to dash instead.

   Other terminals like gnome-terminal, multi-gnome terminal, yakuake and
linux
console (opened as a session from Konsole) all command complete in the
same
way.

   My Linux book also talks about a file called .inputrc which isn't on my
system. Would this contain the right instructions for command completion?
-Graham Petley

> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:03 +0200
> From: "James Attard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Proper command line completion
> To: "Malta Linux User Group - general list" <[email protected]>
>
> probably a bug...how does the linux console behave?
>
> On 5/14/07, Graham Petley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hallo,
> >    I've recently changed from Suse/KDE to Ubuntu/Gnome. But I'm still
> > using
> > Konsole as my shell. I find that the command line completion doesn't
work
> > properly.
> >    In a directory I have some files beginning with cell_ and a
directory
> > called
> > cells. Command line completion doesn't work when I type
> > $ cd cell<TAB>
> >
> >    Hitting TAB repeatedly gives the listing of the choices that stop
the
> > completion.
> > cell_choice2.html         cell_choice.html          cell_list_vx.html
> > cell_choice2.html~        cell_list.html            cell_list.xls
> > cell_choice2.html_050426  cell_list_old.html        cells/
> >
> >    The only directory is cells, so the s should be added to cell. So
far
> > as I
> > remember, this is what happened with Suse/KDE.
> >
> >    Is there any way to get completion to work?
> >
> > -Graham Petley
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:21 +0200
> From: "Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Proper command line completion
> To: "Malta Linux User Group - general list" <[email protected]>
>
> You are probably not using Bash. Ubuntu have lately moved to Dash
instead of
> Bash due to speed improvements.
>
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