How to show only first level subdir in bash auto-completion?

Question

I have this bash completion file

#/etc/bash_completion.d/mycommand

_mycommand()
{
    local cur
    COMPREPLY=()

    _init_completion || return

    #Variable to hold the current word
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"

    #array variable COMPREPLY

    dirs=('Rootdir/
        Secondrootdir/ 
        Rootdir/Subdir/
        Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/
        Secondrootdir/Thirdsubdir/
        Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/'
    )

    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$dirs" "$cur"))

}

#Assign the auto-completion function _mycommand for our command mycommand.
complete -F _mycommand mycommand

When I have multiple choice and hit TAB twice I see following:

$ mycommand Secondrootdir/
Secondrootdir/
Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/
Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/
Secondrootdir/Thirdsubdir/

But I want to see only one-level deep subdirs of the current entered Secondrootdir

like this:

$ mycommand Secondrootdir/
Anothersubdir/ Thirdsubdir/

cd command does business well

$ cd Music/
kattymusic/ Playlists/  Relax/

But I can't understand how cd auto-completion works.

May anybody help me, please?

No. They are on the remote server. And I only can receive the list of them using API. — Oleg, Apr 07 '17 at 13:41
The problem is - if I will count the number of input slashes, and trim the output strings after the number+1 slash, auto-completion will stop after that when I hit tab. — Oleg, Apr 07 '17 at 14:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Many thanx to the post

Bash completion: compgen a wordlist as if they were paths - Only suggest up until next slash

finally the code looks like this

#/etc/bash_completion.d/mycommand

_mycommand()
{
    local cur i

    _init_completion || return

    compopt -o filenames

    #Variable to hold the current word
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"


    dirs='Rootdir/Subdir/ Secondrootdir/Thirdsubdir/ Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/'

    # If we include root dirs we have to remove them
    # e.g we have Secondrootdir/ Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/ Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/'
    # we need to skip the shorties path and remain only the longest one Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/'
    # dirs='Rootdir/ 
    #     Secondrootdir/
    #     Rootdir/Subdir/
    #     Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/
    #     Secondrootdir/Thirdsubdir/
    #     Secondrootdir/Anothersubdir/Subsubdir/'

    arr=($(compgen -W "$dirs" -- $cur))
    for path in "${arr[@]}"
    do

        local trailing_trim

        # Determine what to trim from the end
        trailing_trim="${path#${cur%/*}/}/"
        trailing_trim="${trailing_trim#*/}"
        trailing_trim="${trailing_trim%/}"


        # Don't add a space if there is more to complete
        [[ "$trailing_trim" != "" ]] && compopt -o nospace

        # Remove the slash if mark-directories is off
        if ! _rl_enabled mark-directories
        then
            # If The current typed path doesnt have a slash in it yet check if
            # it is the full first portion of a path and ignore everything after
            # if it is. We don't have to do this once the typed path has a slash
            # in it as the logic above will pick up on it
            [[ "$cur" != */* && "$path" == ${cur}/* ]] && path="$cur/$trailing_trim"    

            trailing_trim="/$trailing_trim"
        fi

        COMPREPLY[i++]="${path%%${trailing_trim}}"

    done



}

#Assign the auto-completion function _mycommand for our command mycommand.
complete -F _mycommand mycommand

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '17 at 09:49

0

I've found the solution and it's incredibly simple.

Just one line of code does the magic

# This forces readline to only display the last item separated by a slash
compopt -o filenames

answered Apr 08 '17 at 09:49

Oleg

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How to show only first level subdir in bash auto-completion?

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