Need to edit, improve the auto completion on sudo

itil nonok

8/23/24, 9:34 AM

How can we improve the auto completion on sudo, as it should complete second argument, i.e. the rooted executable's first argument, with items of the current working directory files instead of that of executable files in PATH

The problem is can find this Bash completion only few of the sudo lines under /usr/share/bash-completion

in bash_completion: ... ...

_root_command()
{
    local PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
    local root_command=$1
    _command
}
complete -F _root_command fakeroot gksu gksudo kdesudo really

and in completions/sudo line 54:

complete -F _sudo sudo sudoedit

Please one so expert on the Bash completion help

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auto-completion

steeldriver

8/23/24, 2:58 PM

Can you provide a specific example? I can't reproduce this issue with (for example) `sudo ls <TAB>`

itil nonok

8/24/24, 2:11 PM

not get annoyed: $ sudo tar <tab> ... ? ...just flow all Path executable files

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