Root! Root! Root!

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, russell cook wrote:
> I agree tab completion is great. When I remember (not always), I type
> the command and command line first

You don't need to do this.  Edit '.bashrc' in your home-directory
and uncomment the last lines that say:

  # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
  # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).
  if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
      . /etc/bash_completion
  fi

then open a new terminal (so that the script gets re-read with your changed
setting) and you can now do:

  $ sud[tab]modp[tab]ee[tab]

and that'll get completed to:

  $ sudo modprobe eepro100

since 'bash_completions' knows that certain commands (eg. modprobe) will be
followed by a module from '/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/...'.  The same goes for
'cd' knowing that it will only be followed by a directory and not
normal files and lots, lots, more applications.

Hope that's useful---I have no idea why this isn't the default in
Ubuntu---it would really help people appreciate how useful sudo is!

	-Paul
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