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[Senectus .]

n Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:35:07 +1100, Cameron Hutchison
<camh+ubuntu at xdna.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time Senectus . said...
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:21:17 -0500, Xian <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Try this from a normal terminal session:
> > >
> > > # sudo passwd
> > >
> > I have to say, one of the biggest reasons I don't like using sudo is
> > that tab completion for bin files doesn't work..
> > ie
> > sudo apt-g then hit the tab key will not complete the command.
> > unlike running the following as root:
> > apt-g then hit the tab key...
> 
> If you source /etc/bash_completion from your .bash_profile or .bashrc,
> the completion will work for sudo commands (and many other things. eg.
> try apt-get in<tab> and it will complete "install". apt-get remove <tab>
> will complete on all installed packets, etc).

Is there some sort of a "howto" on doing this? 
and just out of interest, why isn't this setup by default.. it seems
illogical to me to not take advantage of this.

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