Re: file name completion

[Bob Proulx]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Thank you.  It had to be something reasonable.  I did not know
> bash had add-on packages.  How do I determine what I have?  :)
> Thank you.  Regards, Bruce
> 
> (I searched for "package" in the man page, but that word is not there.
> And I did download Ian's package, so I have it at home now, too.)

Usually this is installed as /etc/bash_completion and is then sourced
by either the user's .bashrc or the system's /etc/bash.bashrc.  On my
Debian system /etc/bash_completion.d/ exists and packages such as git,
subversion, etc. install their specific completion files there.

When it is loaded:

  $ echo $BASH_COMPLETION
  /etc/bash_completion

Bob