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Bash autocomplete on symlink to directory complete to whole directory, including slash

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20268784 views
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Problem

Possible Duplicate: Tab-completion with directories/links when I've a symlink linking to a directory and I start typing and hit tab, it completes to but I'd like to complete it to so I can immediately add the next character for further completes. How can I do that?

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Fix for: Bash autocomplete on symlink to directory complete to whole directory, including slash

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Enable the option for readline. Edit : Press C-x, C-r to reload the settings. See section READLINE in the manual page of for further documentation. For those who do not wish to add another dot file, you can also add this line to your :

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