Prompt doesn't autocomplete with tab key

mothur bugs
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Hello there!

We have a curious thing. We downloaded mothur v1.45.3 on our server (Ubuntu 20.04). When we try to autocomplete a file name with a Tab, it doesn’t work. With other versions or on other computers we hadn’t seen that problem.

Tab autocompleting works properly outside mothur. What could be the problem?

Best,
Mario.

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Our prebuilt version for Ubuntu 20.04 does not include the readline library which allows for the autocompletion feature. You have a few options:

  1. Build from source, installing the readline library.
  2. Run the prebuilt version without readline.
  3. Try our generic Linux version, Mothur.linux_8.zip (requires readline 7)
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Thanks! I’ll download the version without readline. I’ll let you know the results.

Best,

Mario.

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