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I've been digging deep into what actually comes with osX in /usr/bin and especially /usr/libexec.

Quite good stuff really, although the command syntax is a bit.. odd.

Let me direct the curious to the command that made me think of this:

networksetup -printcommands

I can not think of a command that better illustrates the need for good completion. 

security -h

perhaps, but those commands have a familiar easy-to-read format.

I beseech the community, please point me to a place where I can find such a thing. I never type them right, and I ache for tab completion for this

Anyone have any idea where I could grab something? I'd prefer to stand on the shoulders of giants instead of trying to make a zsh/bash completion script leap into the world, ready for battle, like Athena, from my forehead.

I am no Zeus when it comes to compctl. Not at all.

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    compctl is old school. zstyle nicer. Gonna try, as I am all alone out here apparently ;) – chiggsy Nov 30 '10 at 08:41
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    It's not that much nicer. Got the basics for networksetup. Odd, I would ordinarily hate zsh by now, but the very little I dug out of that byzantine manpage makes zsh so much sweeter... How I wish I could walk away from this sort of thing.... – chiggsy Dec 04 '10 at 02:17
  • +1: Mind sharing what you have so far? – Miles Jan 30 '11 at 05:07
  • Certainly. At least it tab completes on the myriad switches... I'll clean it up and upload this am. – chiggsy Jan 30 '11 at 16:09

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This project has a number of completions for Mac-specific commands (neither of the two you mentioned, but it does have others like defaults, hdiutil, launchctl, mdls, open, and others), as well as a lot of other command-line functions and utilities:

http://code.google.com/p/zsh-templates-osx/

There's a lot of Mac development and system utilities that don't have completions defined yet (libtool, pkgutil, otool; the ones you mentioned); hopefully the project maintainer is active and accepts contributions.

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