• luciferofastora@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        Doesn’t it autocomplete? I mean, not if it’s an argument for sudo, obviously, but my terminal starts in interactive mode anyway, so that’s rarely an issue

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          23 hours ago

          Why not if it’s for sudo, can’t sudo just redirect the auto complete to ask based on the command after sudo?

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            23 hours ago

            I don’t know, to be honest; I’m not deeply familiar with its workings. I just know that I made a habit of running a command “dry” without sudo, both because not everything should be done with superuser privileges* and because it’s a way to make sure I get the syntax right, then if it does need sudo, I repeat it with sudo.

            *Which is why sudo -i (the interactive mode) is a dangerous tool that shouldn’t actually be your default mode of working

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              18 hours ago

              Auto complete is a separate command (or a bash function) that runs when you press tab. It’s a feature of the terminal (e.g. bash). Programs can provide theur auto complete while distributing their packages, or provide a flag to generate auto complete.

              So I would think you can just call that function call auto complete for whatever command is after sudo. But maybe it gets complicated. I’ve only written it for my own programs.