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Is there a way to use tab completion for the package names in Bash?

April 26, 2017bash completion names package Tab

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Is there a way to use tab completion for the package names in Bash?

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Yes, this completion was contributed by Alec Thomas on the slapt-get-devel mailing list. This goes in your ~/.bashrc file (or in /etc/bash_completion, /etc/bash_completion.d/, /etc/profile, or /etc/profile.