Macos – Mac OSX terminal bash-completion not working

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I just followed the instructions @ this question in order to get git autocompletion in the terminal. Here are the steps I've undertaken:

  • port install bash-completion

  • Added 

     if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
   . /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
   echo "bash completion loaded"
 fi

    to my ~/.profile

  • port update git-core +svn +bash_completion +doc

Then I restarted the terminal, it showed me "bash completion loaded" so obviously the file exists, but the tab-completion still only works on files. Nothing magical happening after typing git and then hitting tab.

I examined /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/ and it gives me 149 files including
git, java, man, port. I tried typing those commands and then hitting tab but nothing worked there either.

Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong? Maybe I messed up a environment variable or something. Can anyone who has bash-completion install tell me a command where it should work , like port up and then hit tab –> port upgrade.
Thanks 😉

Edit:

Found another link that describes my approach: How to get git-completion.bash to work on Mac OS X?

Best Answer

For me in tmux it worked, but in plain iTerm2 not. Solution was setting the Command to /opt/local/bin/bash -l for my used iTerm2 profile. I found the solution at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/bash-completion

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