Debian Lenny, and tab auto-complete

Date June 28, 2009

I’m currently working on rebuilding a server on a project, and went to hit the tab key to auto-complete1, when I was presented a delightful error…

$ vim RE-sh: <( compgen -d — ‘RE’ ): No such file or directory
-sh: <( eval compgen -f -X ‘*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|rpm|gif|GIF|jp?(e)g|JP?(E)G|mp3|MP3|mp?(e)g|MPG|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|ogg|OGG|class|CLASS)’ — $(quote_readline $cur) ): No such file or directory

This is actually a reported bug in Debian [#502804] and is caused by using /bin/sh as a shell, rather than /bin/bash due to some POSIX compliant code.  A simple change to the shell until they release the fix..

usermod –s /bin/bash jangliss

And we’re all set again.

  1. You have no idea how dependant you get on such simple features[]

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