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$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/02/20 06:53:33 ianmacd Exp $
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INSTALLATION
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------------
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If you are installing the source file manually as opposed to using a packaging
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system such as dpkg or rpm, put it somewhere on your system and source it from
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either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc.
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Here's one possible way of doing that from /etc/bashrc:
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bash=${BASH_VERSION%.*}; bmajor=${bash%.*}; bminor=${bash#*.}
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if [ "$PS1" ] && [ $bmajor -eq 2 ] && [ $bminor '>' 04 ] \
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&& [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then # interactive shell
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# Source completion code
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. /etc/bash_completion
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fi
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unset bash bmajor bminor
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This code checks that the version of bash that is parsing the code is later
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than 2.04 and, if so, sources the bash completion code.
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While this code may, at first, seem overly complex, the advantage of using it
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is that it will also parse correctly when interpreted by bash 1.x. If you have
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bash 1.x and bash 2.x users on your system, you must avoid using constructs
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that were not valid under 1.x syntax.
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If you are putting the bash completion source file somewhere other than
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/etc/bash_completion, you will need to edit the top of the file to make
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$BASH_COMPLETION point to the correct location.
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The line you need to adjust is this one:
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[ -z "$BASH_COMPLETION" ] && declare -r BASH_COMPLETION=/etc/bash_completion
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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---------------
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If you get errors about 'complete' or 'compgen' not accepting the -g flag,
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you are probably running bash 2.05 and should either apply the group completion
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patch, download a prepatched bash binary of 2.05, or upgrade to 2.05a or later.
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If you find that some commands, such as 'cd /usr<Tab>', end with a trailing
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space instead of appending a /, you are probably running the base version of
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bash 2.05, which suffers from a bug that causes the '-o filenames' option to
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the complete built-in to be ignored. You can fix this by applying the following
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the following official patch from the bash maintainer:
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ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-2.05-patches/bash205-006
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If you get errors about 'complete' not accepting the -o flag, you are probably
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running bash 2.04. In this case, you should upgrade to bash 2.05a or later.
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Copies of the patches and prepatched versions of bash are available from:
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http://www.caliban.org/bash/
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--
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Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
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