Ubuntu
bash-completion package

  1. Bug #533985
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 533985

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: Bash completion fails for .tar.xz files when invoking tar (and in various other situations)

Here is a patch that simply disables the whitelist and re-runs compgen whenever it fails to produce any results.

I've been using this on my dev system for the last day and it pretty much solves all of my gripes that led to me filing and working on this blueprint:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-server-n-commandline-userfriendly