I am not so into Linux and I have the following doubts: a client provided me an Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS virtual machine which I access via SSH. (I am using MobaxTerm as SSH client but it should not be the problem.) The shell used is sh.
The problem is that in the shell the autocomplete function is not working as I expected using the Tab key.
It simply put the classical tab white spaces.
Why? How can I change this configuration?
Pip has a long list of commands. Is there any way to use auto-complete by Tab in console (Bash)?
apt-get install and apt-cache policy do not complete package names.
I have double checked /etc/bash.bashrc, no irregularities.
Googled for answers but none suffice.
Any help/advice?
I have just came across something that is really bothering me. Autocompletion on ubuntu works like a charm but when I login as root, e.g. su I get tab autocompletion only sometimes.
Why does it work like that? Can one change that?
Sometimes I need to quickly copy a file from my remote server to my local machine. Here's my current workflow:
sftp user@hostname:/path/to/file (where /path/to/file is the path I previously copied)
It's not such a pain but it would be really nice if I could skip step 1 and find the path to the file using tab completion directly when typing the sftp command.
To illustrate, I could start typing sftp user@hostname:/ press TAB and get a listing of folders in /. I could then go on typing ho press TAB and it would auto-complete to home, etc. etc.
I'm not sure if such a feature exists and otherwise, is it theoretically possible to write a custom tab completion script as described? Any pointers on where to start?