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author | David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> | 2011-02-06 21:26:41 +0100 |
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committer | David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> | 2011-02-06 21:26:41 +0100 |
commit | 9920a8faedf704420571d8072ccab27e9dac40ba (patch) | |
tree | 733edf3b07be06c130d04aaa1884213326722cad /README | |
parent | f9748115fb4b2950fb4df7535fb723c4affde078 (diff) | |
download | bash-completion-9920a8faedf704420571d8072ccab27e9dac40ba.tar.gz |
Imported Upstream version 1.3upstream/1.3
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ fi (if you happen to have *only* bash >= 3.2 installed, see further if not) If you don't have the package readily available for your distribution, or -you simply don't want to do this, put the bash_completion file somewhere -on your system and source it from either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc, as -explained above. - -A more elaborate way that takes care of not loading on old, unsupported -bash versions as well as some other conditions is included in the bash -completion package as bash_completion.sh. If your system has the -/etc/profile.d directory and loads all files from it automatically, -you may place the file in it. If not, place the file somewhere on your -system and source it from /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc, or copy its contents -to one of those files. +you simply don't want to use one, you can install bash completion using the +standard commands for GNU autotools packages: + +./configure +make +make check # optional, requires dejagnu and tcllib +make install # as root + +These commands installs the completions and helpers, as well as a +profile.d script that loads bash_completion where appropriate. If +your system does not use the profile.d directory (usually below /etc) +mechanism, i.e. does not automatically source shell scripts in it, you +can source the $sysconfdir/profile.d/bash_completion.sh script in +/etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc. If you're using MacOS X, /etc/bashrc is apparently not sourced at all. In that case, you should put the bash_completion file in /sw/etc and add |