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According to Gary Johnson on 3/19/2007 4:20 PM:
> On 2007-03-19, robert_neville310 AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
>> I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The
>> .bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab
>> completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out
>> myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh
>> myscript.sh. Is this behavior normal? Can I change the console
>> behavior to tab out ./myscript.sh?
> 
> Larry didn't address the case of
> 
>     sh myscript.sh
> 
> which doesn't seem to work by default.

That is, if you don't use the bash-completion package.  If you install
that, and tweak your ~/.bashrc (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some
hints), then you get this, and many other, programmable completion tweaks
by default.

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