bash_completion causing a 'command not found' in terminal

Question

I'm using bash_completion in order to hit tab and see branch names and directories. That all works. I placed this into my bash_profile in order to connect bash_completion:

if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion
fi

When I start my terminal now I get:

-bash: @MyNameHERE: command not found

If I remove the first snippet from the bash_profile, this goes away, but then bash_completion doesn't work. Any thoughts?

Brew Doctor results:

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Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
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building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

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Set -xv Results:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpencerRohan/debug/master/README.md

Thermosphere

Can you update your question with the exact output of brew doctor? (If that leads you to a solution, post that as an answer and accept it.) – Siphonostele

@Siphonostele brew doctor results are posted. I updated and fixed a path issue by running: echo export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile Problem still occuring – Thermosphere

If your problem is related with your ~/.bash_profile file, then try to debug it: insert this line to the beginning of the file: set -xv – Stratocumulus

What happens when you run: . brew --prefix/etc/bash_completion` on its own? – Siphonostele

@Siphonostele :No such file or directory. If I run brew --prefix alone I get /usr/local – Thermosphere

So you have no /usr/local/etc/bash_completion folder on your system? I assume you brew install bash-completion and brew tap homebrew/completions successfully ? – Siphonostele

bash_completion is a file, at that directory - I believe I successfully installed the above. – Thermosphere

As a start try this: which brew – Stratocumulus

@Zsigmond Lőrinczy /usr/local/bin/brew – Thermosphere

Then adding '/usr/local/bin' into the PATH should have helped. You still could try to debug with command set -xv – Stratocumulus

@ZsigmondLőrinczyWhat am I looking for in the debug command? – Thermosphere

Just quote here (copy+paste) the output you got. – Zohar

@LorinczyZsigmond Code results have been added above - thanks – Thermosphere

@ZsigmondLőrinczy Code results have been added above - thanks – Thermosphere

That's cool, but it's tons of lines. You should cut out everything from your .bash_profile (make a backup copy beforehand) that is unrelated the current problem. – Stratocumulus

The only thing remotely like that is a directory called /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d so your if statement is plainly wrong. Inside that directory are symlinks for npm, tmux and a couple of others. I suspect homebrew has been updated with further flexibility that your script doesn't take account of... – Flyweight

@MarkSetchell github.com/bobthecow/git-flow-completion/wiki/… -- that if statement was grabbed from here. Not saying you are incorrect, but just following directions – Thermosphere

I've updated to GNU bash version 4.3.42 - and upgraded bash-completion to bash-completion2. Still having the same issue. – Thermosphere

Answer 1

This:

-bash: @MyNameHERE: command not found

is telling you it is trying to execute the command @MyNameHERE and it doesn't find it in your system.

Try replacing:

if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion
fi

with

brewPrefix=`brew --prefix`
if [ -f "${brewPrefix}/etc/bash_completion" ]; then
    . "${brewPrefix}/etc/bash_completion"
fi

my wild guess is that some space in the return value of brew --prefix can cause this

if this still doesn't work try setting the full path in the brewPrefix variable (comment the other line with a #). the execution in .bash_profile sometimes do not work like executing it in your usual terminal because environment variables are different

Also make sure that snippet is placed at the BOTTOM of the .bash_profile

Dinge

Replaced the code snippet and it worked like a charm. No full path needed. Also, placed at the bottom of the .bash_profile -- however it worked when it was not at the bottom. – Thermosphere

Then the issue was 99% a space in the path :) – Dinge

The variable isn't necessary, as long as the output of brew --prefix is quoted. (if [ -f "$(brew --prefix)"/etc/bash_completion ], for example. Also, prefer $(...) over backquotes.) – Joktan