Bug 70329 – skel .bashrc should also include code for per-user bash-completions

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2004-11-07 00:40:53 UTC]

Now that it is possible to have per-user bash completions installed via bash-completion-config, the skel .bashrc provided by baselayout should include code to source any files in ~/.bash_completion.d (commented out by default, of course).

Something like the following:

[ -d ~/.bash_completion.d ] && for i in ~/.bash_completion.d/*; do [ -f $i ] && . $i; done

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-11-07 22:27:07 UTC]

the following is already in skel's bashrc:

# uncomment the following to activate bash-completion:
#[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion

why cant this suggested enhancement be added to that file instead ?

[Comment 2 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-11-08 00:22:46 UTC]

/etc isn't per-user.

[Comment 3 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2004-11-08 05:33:06 UTC]

heh that was my original idea but I didn't think it would work (obviously I wasn't alone ;p).  

$ tail /etc/profile.d/bash-completion
if [ "$PS1" ] && [ -d ~/.bash_completion.d ] ; then
    for file in ~/.bash_completion.d/* ; do
        [ -f $file ] && source $file
    done
fi
$ echo lala="LALALALALALALA" > ~/.bash_completion.d/lala
$ . /etc/profile.d/bash-completion
$ echo $lala
LALALALALALALA

Sorry for the spam guys...

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-11-09 21:54:04 UTC]

i didnt say /etc was per-user, but if the global bash-completion does a per-user check like Aaron suggested ...