Has TAB completion in bash changed?

Normally I would use the TAB key to complete a command as in changing a directory (cd).

If I pressed the TAB key I would get the command competed until a duplicate line was hit and then if I hit TAB again I would get a listing of matching alternatives. This would go on until I chose the alternative I wanted.

Now all I get is the first completion and no more do I get any alternatives, and even if I add the next letter of the command line in the correct sequence pressing TAB again does not do any further completions nor give me any alternatives.

Now I have read the bash man page and found several parameters which have something to do with bash completion but I've never had to use these before. (perhaps they were correctly set as defaults by the original OS install).

For example :-

I have two directories :-

~/temp/a truly long name
~/temp/a truly longer name

When I execute :- cd temp/
and press the TAB key I would expect the cd command to look like this

cd ~/temp/a\ truly\ long

I would then press the TAB key again and would expect nothing to happen until I pressed the TAB key again.

I would then expect this to happen :-

cd ~/temp/a\ truly\ long
~/temp/a\ truly\ long\ name ~/temp/a\ truly\ longer\ name (or similar)

and I could make a choice usually by adding the letter "e" on the command line and pressing the TAB key again.

Anybody have any ideas?

The example you wrote works for me, so probably something was misconfigured in your environment.

http://www.debian-administration.org...pletion_part_1
http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml

Obviously these are old, but you can find a way to start.

Would you mind showing me a copy of the following command please ?

set | grep ^BASH

mine is :-
set|grep ^BASH
BASH=/usr/bin/bash
BASHOPTS=checkwinsize:cmdhist:complete_fullquote:expand_aliases:extglob:extquote:force_fignore:hista ppend:interactive_commentsrogcompromptvars:sourcepath
BASH_ALIASES=()
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_CMDS=()
BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR=/etc/bash_completion.d
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_REMATCH=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="3" [2]="33" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu")
BASH_VERSION='4.3.33(1)-release'

mine is exactly the same

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