{"id":7424,"date":"2023-10-31T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:58:19","slug":"bash-complete-nosort-invalid-option-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/mac\/bash-complete-nosort-invalid-option-name\/","title":{"rendered":"-bash: complete: nosort: invalid option name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago I started getting the following error whenever I&#8217;d launch bash on my Mac.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">-bash: complete: nosort: invalid option name<\/pre>\n<p>A quick Google gave me the impression it was <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Homebrew\/homebrew-core\/issues\/32535\">to do with WireGuard<\/a>. I do have WireGuard installed on the Mac, so I figured there&#8217;s nothing I can do and left it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I wasn&#8217;t in a mood to leave it so thought I&#8217;d try and fix it. Looks like it&#8217;s a side effect of <code>wireguard-tools<\/code> actually, which I don&#8217;t have installed. Maybe the macOS WireGuard software does something? But I couldn&#8217;t find anything in the completions folder to do with WireGuard.<\/p>\n<p>On an M1 (and above) the Bash completion files are at <code>\/opt\/homebrew\/etc\/bash_completion.d<\/code>. So I went to that folder and did the following:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">grep -OR nosort *<\/pre>\n<p>The <code>-R<\/code> switch means recurse; the <code>-O<\/code> switch, which I missed initially and didn&#8217;t realize was needed, tells <code>grep<\/code> to follow symbolic links. That&#8217;s important coz this folder has symbolic links and without this switch the <code>grep<\/code> command won&#8217;t do anything. What I am doing here is searching for the word &#8220;nosort&#8221; in all the files of that folder. Apparently the <code>complete<\/code> command has this invalid switch passed to it in some file.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, I got one result:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">gpg-tui.bash:complete -F _gpg-tui -o nosort -o bashdefault -o default gpg-tui<\/pre>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use <code>gpg-tui<\/code> much, had installed it <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.orhun.dev\/introducing-gpg-tui\/\">when I came across it somewhere<\/a>. So I uninstalled it and problem was gone. If I were using <code>gpg-tui<\/code> I&#8217;d have just edited the file and removed this option I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago I started getting the following error whenever I&#8217;d launch bash on my Mac. -bash: complete: nosort: invalid option name A quick Google gave me the impression it was to do with WireGuard. I do have WireGuard installed on the Mac, so I figured there&#8217;s nothing I can do and left it. Today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/mac\/bash-complete-nosort-invalid-option-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">-bash: complete: nosort: invalid option name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[853],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}