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Bash completion for every single installed module isn't baked in on every install?

• saagarjha 8y ago
  I know of multiple Debian systems I've used with decent bash-completion for most commands out-of-the-box–now, whether this was because it had already installed bash-completion and the associated completion files for each preinstalled APT package in the bash-completion directory, I don't know.
  • oblio 8y ago
    Bash completion scripts have to be hand written for each command. Ok, at best they can be autogenerated from some tool if the command's development environment has a tool for it. But many of these scripts are handwritten. So they have to be created by humans and then installed on the system. Far from auto-introspection into a standard API.
• ajuc 8y ago
  There's nothing in linux that is baked in on every install except for kernel. On most desktop/server distributions bash-completion is installed by default. On embedded it mostly isn't.