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asked 2014-10-10 10:24:17 -0500

candidcypher
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I am on Ubuntu 12.04 running Hydro and with roscd I can't tab complete. Is there something wrong with my install or is that just not a feature available with the ROS file navigation tools.

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answered 2014-10-10 10:58:04 -0500

ahendrix

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roscd should tab-complete ROS package names.

If this isn't working, you should check:

That you're sourcing the setup.bash and not setup.sh in your workspace. (setup.sh is for posix-compliant shells that don't have any fancy features.)
That your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH are set properly (The setup files should do this automatically when you source them, but there's always a possibility that something is overwriting them later)

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Yeah, my source is correct: $source /opt/ros/hydro/setup.bash Not sure what is preventing it... Just strange. Thanks for the quick feedback!

candidcypher ( 2014-10-10 11:18:11 -0500 )edit

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Are you using a shell other than bash?

ahendrix ( 2014-10-10 11:21:41 -0500 )edit

Note that ahendrix was referring to the setup.bash in your catkin workspace (i.e. "source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash"), which is another script than the one you mention (in /opt/ros/). You need to run BOTH scripts (first /opt/ros/... then the one in your catkin workspace) to get it to work.

wouter_tnl ( 2014-10-20 03:56:22 -0500 )edit

Thanks guys! That makes a lot of sense.

candidcypher ( 2014-10-20 10:20:30 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-10-17 09:34:46 -0500

candidcypher
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After thinking about it, and again I apologize for being such a noob, but could it be that roscd only navigates within ROS packages once you have navigated to them? I believe I may have been misusing roscd to navigate to a directory I created in a workspace but it wasn't fully added to my packages.

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