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Asked: 2010-11-02 10:45:43 +0800 CST

Auto complete for startable/stopable services?

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Before upstart it was easy to get proper autocomplete, e.g. I type sudo /etc/init.d/rsys<tab> and what I want to do and there I go.

Now I need (?) to write sudo stop rsys<tab> but it doesn't work; seems the bash doesn't know what services can be started/stopped at this point.

Is there an Ubuntu package or manual activation for that?

10.10 upstart

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  1. Best Answer

    The service command has autocompletion, e.g.:

    sudo service rsys<tab> stop

    becomes:

    sudo service rsyslog stop

    Apparently nobody took the time to write autocompletion support for upstart yet...

    Update: There is bash-completion for upstart now (I'm not sure it will be included in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10, but should go into Ubuntu 11.04, and you can find a solution for older versions in the bug report too).

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