Bash does not autocomplete the command when using sudo

autocompletebashosxsudo

I'm using SaltStack. I would like to auto-complete the minion name when calling the salt command.

The following line has been added into ~/.bashrc:

complete -o default -o nospace -W "$(sudo ls -1 /var/cache/salt/master/minions)" salt

Then typing salt inTab → salt integration-Tab; I can see it works as expected:

$ salt integration-TabTab
integration-c   integration-u   integration-u2

To use with sudo, I have added complete -cf sudo into ~/.bashrc, but it didn't work:

sudo salt inTab

returned nothing.

I also have tried to install bash_completion and added the following lines to ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi

but no luck.

Did I miss something?

Update

Oh, the first thing I would like to say is sometimes it works:

$ sudo salt integration-TabTab
integration-c   integration-u   integration-u2

and sometimes it doesn't.

So first, let's see how much your bash_completion package does.

How can I check that? Here's my function:

# a wrapper method for the next one, when the offset is unknown
_command()
{
    local offset i

    # find actual offset, as position of the first non-option
    offset=1
    for (( i=1; i <= COMP_CWORD; i++ )); do
        if [[ "${COMP_WORDS[i]}" != -* ]]; then
            offset=$i
            break
        fi
    done
    _command_offset $offset
}

# A meta-command completion function for commands like sudo(8), which need to
# first complete on a command, then complete according to that command's own
# completion definition - currently not quite foolproof (e.g. mount and umount
# don't work properly), but still quite useful.
#
_command_offset()
{
    local cur func cline cspec noglob cmd i char_offset word_offset \
        _COMMAND_FUNC _COMMAND_FUNC_ARGS

    word_offset=$1

    # rewrite current completion context before invoking
    # actual command completion

    # find new first word position, then
    # rewrite COMP_LINE and adjust COMP_POINT
    local first_word=${COMP_WORDS[$word_offset]}
    for (( i=0; i <= ${#COMP_LINE}; i++ )); do
        if [[ "${COMP_LINE:$i:${#first_word}}" == "$first_word" ]]; then
            char_offset=$i
            break
        fi
    done
    COMP_LINE=${COMP_LINE:$char_offset}
    COMP_POINT=$(( COMP_POINT - $char_offset ))

    # shift COMP_WORDS elements and adjust COMP_CWORD
    for (( i=0; i <= COMP_CWORD - $word_offset; i++ )); do
        COMP_WORDS[i]=${COMP_WORDS[i+$word_offset]}
    done
    for (( i; i <= COMP_CWORD; i++ )); do
        unset COMP_WORDS[i];
    done
    COMP_CWORD=$(( $COMP_CWORD - $word_offset ))

    COMPREPLY=()
    _get_comp_words_by_ref cur

    if [[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 0 ]]; then
        _compopt_o_filenames
        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -c -- "$cur" ) )
    else
        cmd=${COMP_WORDS[0]}
        if complete -p ${cmd##*/} &>/dev/null; then
            cspec=$( complete -p ${cmd##*/} )
            if [ "${cspec#* -F }" != "$cspec" ]; then
                # complete -F <function>

                # get function name
                func=${cspec#*-F }
                func=${func%% *}

                if [[ ${#COMP_WORDS[@]} -ge 2 ]]; then
                    $func $cmd "${COMP_WORDS[${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1]}" "${COMP_WORDS[${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-2]}"
                else
                    $func $cmd "${COMP_WORDS[${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1]}"
                fi

                # remove any \: generated by a command that doesn't
                # default to filenames or dirnames (e.g. sudo chown)
                # FIXME: I'm pretty sure this does not work!
                if [ "${cspec#*-o }" != "$cspec" ]; then
                    cspec=${cspec#*-o }
                    cspec=${cspec%% *}
                    if [[ "$cspec" != @(dir|file)names ]]; then
                        COMPREPLY=("${COMPREPLY[@]//\\\\:/:}")
                    else
                        _compopt_o_filenames
                    fi
                fi
            elif [ -n "$cspec" ]; then
                cspec=${cspec#complete};
                cspec=${cspec%%${cmd##*/}};
                COMPREPLY=( $( eval compgen "$cspec" -- "$cur" ) );
            fi
        elif [ ${#COMPREPLY[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
            _filedir
        fi
    fi
}

if you type sudo mkdirTabTab,
does it show a list of directories?

Yes:

$ sudo mkdir TabTab
.FontForge/        .djangopypi2/      .ievms/            .ssh/              .wireshark-etc/

Best Answer

Check set -o to see if maybe posix mode is enabled. If so, disable with set +o posix

In "posix" mode, bash's tab-completion is for some reason disabled in "vi-mode". I've not seen any explanation why this behavior is so, nor why it's specific to vi-mode, so I didn't bother explaining.

PS: This answer is more suited for someone who stumbles upon the question via a search engine... not for your particular setup.

Update:
Chet Ramey says:

in POSIX mode, the vi editing mode should not map tab to complete. This is because POSIX.2 completely specifies the behavior of the vi editing mode, and the standard requires tab to be mapped to self insert by default.

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You probably already have a completion script with system. Try e.g.

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On Debian variants this is probably:

/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

where you find e.g. _filedir. So the simplest way then would be something in the direction of:

*)
    pushd "/some/path" >/dev/null
    _filedir
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_comp_by_path()
{
    local opt cur dir
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    cur="$2"
    dir="$3"

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_GetOptMyCommand()
{
    local cur

    COMPREPLY=()
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"

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    -*)
        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "-h -l --help --list --" -- "$cur" ) );;
    *)
        _comp_by_path "any" "$cur" "/some/path"
    esac
}

complete -F _GetOptMyCommand my_command

A variant using find could be something in direction of this:

_zaso()
{
    local dir="$1"

    pushd "$dir" >/dev/null
    find * -maxdepth 0 2>/dev/null
    popd >/dev/null
}

_comp_with_find()
{
    local cur dir      
    local IFS=$'\n'

    cur="$1"
    dir="$2"

    compopt -o filenames 2>/dev/null
    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$(_zaso "$dir")" -- "$cur" ) );
}

Also note that printf in Bash has a %q option. So to generate quoted strings this is an option to play with:

find * -maxdepth 0 2>/dev/null && \
while read -r tmp; do
    printf "%q\n" "$tmp"
done <<< "$x"

Also not that file names can have newline characters in which a lot of this will break. Have not found a way to use \0 with compgen.

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