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Implications For sudo Command
Authored by: bfad on Mon, Mar 24 2008 at 8:15AM PDT

One of the most frustrating things for me is that commands don't tab-complete when prefixed by sudo, but now I can modify this for the sudo command. Does anyone with better Unix knowledge then me know how I could use this to read in my $PATH variable to get the list of directories for sudo to look under for tab completion? Otherwise I'll just have to add all the paths individually, including the one's I've specified.

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Authored by: ccase on Mon, Mar 24 2008 at 12:04PM PDT

Try: complete -c -f command sudo

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Authored by: bfad on Tue, Mar 25 2008 at 10:40AM PDT

Thank you ccase! That works perfectly.