Bash tab-completion not working

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I am trying to troubleshoot why the bash tab-completion isn't working on my fedora 19 desktop. I am afraid I just know what else to add to this that might be relevant.

Do you have this in your .bashrc ? bind '"\t":menu-complete' — Nishant, Nov 04 '13 at 18:10
I don't. But your answer made me think of /etc/bashrc that I source. It seems commenting that resolves this. — Humble Debugger, Nov 04 '13 at 18:14
@Nishant isn't readline already setup? I don't have this set but completion works — Miserable Variable, Nov 04 '13 at 18:15
@MiserableVariable You are right. One should check /etc/bash_completion entry — Nishant, Nov 04 '13 at 18:18

D-B · Answer 1 · 2020-01-14T03:29:38.133

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I solved this problem using the solution given at https://askubuntu.com/questions/325807/arrow-keys-tab-complete-not-working.

edited Jan 14 '20 at 03:29

answered Dec 18 '13 at 22:35

D-B

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '22 at 14:33

Another possible cause is lines like..:

set disable-completion on

.. in ~/.inputrc. I don't know what puts that there, but if I deleted it then I found it was recreated every time I started a shell via firejail. However, if I edited it to off instead of on tab completion worked as usual.

Bash tab-completion not working

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