completion does not complete commands after 'gksudo'

[Phil Sung]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

I am using bash-completion 20060301-3ubuntu3 in Hardy. It would be nice if it recognized that gksudo should be followed by a command name, as it does for sudo. For example if I type:

$ gksudo synap<TAB>

bash-completion merely beeps rather than completing to

$ gksudo synaptic

The following patch to /etc/bash_completion fixes this:

diff -u /etc/bash_completion /tmp/buffer-content-66310Oi
--- /etc/bash_completion 2008-04-08 10:29:11.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/buffer-content-66310Oi 2008-06-10 14:39:20.000000000 -0400
@@ -3259,7 +3259,7 @@
 {
  PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin _command $1 $2 $3
 }
-complete -F _root_command $filenames sudo fakeroot really
+complete -F _root_command $filenames sudo fakeroot really gksudo

 # ant(1) completion
 #

[Danilo Penna Queiroz (daniloqueiroz)]

confirmed using:

 * bash-completion 20060301-3ubuntu3
 * gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

Thanks for the patch. I'll include it in the next upload!

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

This change is in upstream bzr and so should be appearing in
Ubuntu some time soon.

Thanks,

James

[Alexander Gieg (alexgieg)]

IMHO, rather than implementing this only for "gksudo", it would be nice to have it for "kdesudo" and "gksu" too.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I can't find a changelog entry for it, but this is fixed in bash-completion 1:1.0-2, now in karmic.

  complete -F _root_command $filenames sudo fakeroot really gksudo gksu kdesudo