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Bash auto completion seems to work normally except on files.

ie, if I am in / and there is some directory structure

/
 folder1/
  folder2/
   fileName
   nameOfFile
  other2/
 otherfolder/

I can type cd f(tab)f(tab) to get "cd folder1/folder2/"

but when in folder2/ typing fi(tab) does nothing.

what gives?

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When you use cd it only auto completes folder names since you can only cd to folders.

You can try with cat ./<tab-tab> to get your files.

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  • everything should show up when tab completing with ls as well
    – h3rrmiller
    Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 2:18
  • @h3rrmiller ya pretty much any command that has auto complete operates on files should work
    – Karthik T
    Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 2:20
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I have had this problem occasionally and here are my two common causes:

ID10t Error: I spell the filename incorrectly.

Not Specific Enough: I may type "file", but in that directory I have two files - file1 and file2. When using autocomplete, be as specific as possible and be aware of files that begin with the same few characters.

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