For a while, I was having a problem on my Ubuntu server. After creating a user, I noticed that tab completion didn’t work properly. In fact, it went so far as to output an error:
<( compgen -d -- '/my/dir' ): No such file or directory
Where "/my/dir" would vary depending on what you're tab-completing. I suspected the problem might be with permissions, but that came up short.
I finally came across the solution here:
http://serverfault.com/questions/47554/ubuntu-tab-completon-and-mc-problems
Since I had trouble finding much information on Google, hopefully this post will help. It turned out to be a shell issue. When I created the user, I never specified the default shell to use (BASH), and I apparently never went back and changed it. Which explains why it worked on some of my users' accounts but not others.
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3 Comments
You rock, thanks!
Thanks a lot !!
Great! Thank you!
(and for those who don’t know, change your default by either issuing “sudo usermod –shell /bin/bash ” or by editing the shell corresponding to your username in /etc/passwd)