Bash tab completion script

Question

I have pass installed and working. However, I cannot get the tab completion to work. I have placed the tab completion script in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/. The script is called password-store. When I run

source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/password-store

the tab completion work in my current terminal session. However, upon rebooting or closing that terminal session I lose the tab completion for pass. How do I make this persistent? I've read that Ubuntu handles these dynamically, but I'm not sure how to make this work. I'm running Lubuntu 14.04.

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

Answer 1

You can add this line

source /path/to/your/tab/completion/script

to the file ~/.bash_completion which is automatically sourced by ~/.bashrc, making it persistent.

Note that you don't need to put the actual script in a specific location, you can choose the path that's most convenient to you.

Answer 2

Add source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/password-store to your ~/.bashrc and then source the latter by running source ~/.bashrc.