Fixing the auto completion used by tab key in terminal

by **BIT0122-Amit** Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:38 pm

After a long time, I reinstalled Ubuntu inside Windows 7.
After the fresh install, first thing I did was opening the terminal(as usual).
However, when I tried to change directory, I realized that pressing the tab key doesn't auto complete the directory names for me.

for example, if the directory is Documents, and if I write
cd Docu
then it will write cd Documents automatically.

But that was not working.
After searching for some time, I found the solution.
The auto completion is used through a package called bash-completion. If the auto complete is not working properly, you can try reinstalling and rebooting.

To remove bash completion, write:

Code:: sudo apt-get remove bash-completion

and to re install it, write

Code:: sudo apt-get install bash-completion

That will do the trick Very Happy