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I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time now. At first everything worked good. After some update that was released lately (probably less than 2 months), terminal does not autocomplete commands any more.

When I try to type something and try to autocomplete it with tab... it just does nothing.

I tried to look at some solutions on this site including this

Terminal autocomplete doesn't work properly

But that did not work. I tried to reinstall Ubuntu, both 20.04.2.0 and 21.04, but the problem persists.

Before when I used the autocomplete function by pressing the tab key, I could hear a beep from the PC, but I do not hear the beep anymore.

Any help please??

Zanna
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Alduxo
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  • You may try to overwrite your bash configuration files with the default ones: cp /etc/skel/.* ~. Exit and restart terminal to see changes. The package bash-completion should be installed by default. – vanadium Jun 12 '21 at 09:22
  • Hi @vanadium

    Can you please write the full command how can it be done? I get the following result when i try to execute the command above

    cp /etc/skel/.* ~ cp: -r not specified; omitting directory '/etc/skel/.'

     – Alduxo Jun 12 '21 at 13:05
  • Don't worry, that is because of the .*. That also selects ., the current directory, besides the hidden files you want to copy, hence the warning. The files are copied, though. If that does not help, perhaps temporarily create a new account to see if the issue persists there. If no, then it is confirmed that this is a problem with your current user configuration. – vanadium Jun 12 '21 at 13:20
  • Sorry none of the above solutions worked...

    Any other suggestion?

     – Alduxo Jun 14 '21 at 18:30
  • So it does not work on another, new account, and even not after reinstalling??? – vanadium Jun 14 '21 at 18:32
  • Yes that is right. It does not work neither with new account, nor with new installation. – Alduxo Jun 15 '21 at 06:22

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