Cant autocomplete "unzip"-command

When I try to use the command "unzip " on any folder I immediately get the line

unzip ls: cannot access 'tmp': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'tmp': No such file or directory
^C

which is particularly weird to me, cause my alias

alias |grep -i unzip
alias unpack='unzip'

works perfectly fine. the unzip command still works, though cant be autocompleted.

I tried “sudo apt reinstall bash-completion” with no difference.

May have nothing to do with autocomplete. Did you verify the /tmp directory is present and writable? Do this command:

ls -ld /tmp

Does this command output the following (the italicized parts will vary on your system):

drwxrwxrwt 25 root root 16384 Oct 23 11:15 /tmp

The important output is the first and the last columns. If it says that there is no such file or directory, then this is your problem. Create it with this command:

sudo mkdir /tmp
sudo chmod a+w /tmp

If there are dashes in the first column, then this is your problem, fix with this command:

sudo chmod a+rxw /tmp

If any of these commands fail, then I think something wrong with your file system.

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/tmp is there and the rights are set properly. size is a lot smaller at ~740, but oh well :smiley: