{"id":20,"date":"2007-02-10T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sqawasmi.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-02-10T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T05:14:00","slug":"enhance-bash-completion-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sqawasmi.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/10\/enhance-bash-completion-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance Bash Completion feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

as known pressing tabs in the Command Line Interface will complete commands or filenames for you, it’s a very nice feature in bash, i don’t remember most of the commands without this feature, but does this feature need to enhance? when you write cd [tab]<\/span> then bash will list all files and directories in the directory you are working in, but you just need the directories to be listed.

<\/span>Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~\/.ssh\/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual.<\/p>\n

you can do many things like that with bash built in commands like complete <\/span>for example:
complete -d pushd -C cd<\/span>
now when you use cd [tab]<\/span> then the directories should be listed….
there is a nice tool named bash-completion <\/span>that combines a lot of nice completion features, in slackware you can find it in the extra folder. i dont know about the other distributions but you can find it here<\/a>, after you install it, you have to source it with .\/etc\/bash_completion<\/span> command or you can put it into your ~\/.bashrc<\/span=\"\"><\/span> <\/span>file by writing some something like this in it<\/p>\n

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f \/etc\/bash_completion ]; then
. \/etc\/bash_completion
fi

Have Fun!<\/span>
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