bash autocompletion resets on every window

Question

My terminal autocompletion does not work properly when I use root.

source /etc/bash_completion works if I invoke that manually.

I need to write above code in every new root terminal to be able to use autocompletion.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to add it to ~/.bashrc, not bash_profile, in this case... but you'll want to only apply it to interactive shells, to avoid taking time whenever you run a script:

case $- in
  *i*) # interactive shell
    source /etc/bash_completion;;
esac

You may need to add to /root/.bashrc for it to work as root... but why are you running a shell as root instead of using sudo for individual commands?

Answer 2

Put this line to ~/.bash_profile:

. /etc/bash_completion