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How to mimic bash tab completion behavior on OS X when using Linux

I'm an OS X user who's used to ssh'ing into various Linux machines. Recently, I installed Ubuntu on one of our servers and have noticed very different tab completion behavior in bash. Among other ...
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zsh completion: getting file names from a specific directory

OK, a little background: I use a Mac, and I do as much as possible in the CLI. In particular, I frequently pop in a USB stick, cp or mv a file over, and then immediately wish to eject (unmount and ...
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Weird autocomplete behaviour in ZSH / oh-my-zsh for directories that don't exist

UPDATE 3 I've worked out that these annoying autocomplete options are actually usernames. I.e. they exist in /etc/passwd I have users such as _kadmin_admin and _kadmin_changepw and many others ...
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Stop tab completion suggesting 'messagebus'

I've got a directory called build, which I cd into quite a bit. If there isn't any directory bu* in the current directory, zsh tab completion: cd buTAB suggests messagebus/, which isn't in .. If I ...
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ZSH to auto-complete directories in command-line arguments?

Transferred from regular StackOverflow... I'm a new ZSH convert on OSX (git status in the prompt was my main driver to make the leap). Everything seems to be working swimmingly but I'm missing ...