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Why auto complete does not work for directories in terminal ?

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I am using Ubuntu 13.10. While i was using previous versions of Ubuntu, I was able to auto-complete the directories names, even multiple times in a single command. I am not able to the same now. As shown in screen-shot, I am writing this command and then I press Tab. But nothing happens, while I am having a directory at that level , named 'addons'. Can I have solution for this problem I am facing ?

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answered 3 Years ago anxietunnel · Accepted Answer

The filepicker autocomplete path stub needs to be separate from any other string. In your example:

command --argument=/path/stub<TAB>

Bash is just going to see the --argument and bug out. You could probably improve it by making it parse through that but that's not entirely trivial.