Hello, Bash is more of less a good shell. However, there are still some bugs, like the Tab auto completion. This issue is on Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, and many more debian-based. The last patch allows to fix it. Which possible reliable alternative to BASH, really stable, would you advice? ZSH would be my best alt. Best regards, Patrick

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https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...mplete-in-bash

Tab-completion is working no problems (and always has) for me. And yet you claim there are "bugs", other than the link you have provided, what other "bugs" are you talking about??

Are you running on a LDAP client??

If you want to use something else, then why don't you?

The provided link refers to Ubuntu 12.04 which was released a long time ago and also may have been a one-of problem for that distribution only.

I agree with jsbjsb001 with inquiring what you are referring too? Bash works fine for me as well as many others.

Also if you do not prefer the bash shell, you can choose an alternative.

Note that the correct location to raise issues with bash is on the Gnu Bash Development Site

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additionally zsh has really more features, but those are additions, and not implemented in bash (therefore you cannot say bugs).

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tab-completion works on both my bashes.
no bug here.

Yes, it works - obviously, definitely -, but tab-completion of zsh is much more fun/complete, because a lot of additional (artifical) intelligence has been built into that. I do not really like this kind of "intelligence" - in general, but actually in zsh it was very well designed and implemented.

Been using tab autocomplete all morning on my Debian 9 laptop (I actually had to use my personal laptop for work since I don't know how to do the things I needed to do in Windows).

I've probably been using tab autocomplete since sometime during the 80s on both Sparc workstations as well as an HP-UX.

Fact is the only time it didn't work as I expected, was not because of a bug, but because of a duplication in string and thus I needed to tap it again to see the list of options matching the autocompletion. And then it usually was because I had typed, 'c[tab]' and thus it had about 100 completions possible or something.

My assumption is that this problem was a one-of for release 12.04 of Ubuntu where I also assume that they fixed it.

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The OP's link only mentions Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, not the other distro's he mentions. So I believe you are right. Unless the OP is trying to say because Ubuntu was affected that, by extension that must also mean Linux Mint and Debian as well (not that I agree with him, if he is trying to say that, mind you), well... it was only Ubuntu from my reading.

There was nothing wrong with the original 'sh'.
People wanted shortcuts added to their shells, & so a variety sprang up to satisfy their desires. Each has certain features, & some have extras.