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Questions about command completion in the Bash Unix shell.

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where do I install custom completions for a python command line script on OSX

In the bash-completions read me it states: Q. I author/maintain package X and would like to maintain my own completion code for this package. Where should I put it to be sure that interactive bash shells will find it and source it? Install it…
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Copying files in bash

Im learning bash and I have a question about how to copy files from fatherly folder into another folder when user types "0". (for example from K2 to K1) And I don't know how to do so. #!/bin/bash echo $1 $2 $3 $4 K1=$1 K2=$2 if [ $4 -eq "0" ]…
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Interpolate variables in path (bash command line)

Please, tell me, what should i do , to interpolate variable name in bash command line while I type it? i.e. $A = ~/tmp/ in tmp folder I have tmp1 and tmp2 folders. I type: cd $A and nothing happes. if i put additional / and type cd $A/tmp1, it…
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Print all commands with pathnames

I am trying to print all of the program file names on a system accessable from bash. (eg the path) I have been using 'which $(compgen -c)' but that does not seem efficient. Is there a better way?
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Makefile bash autocompletion issue with PHP generated targets

In a large Makefile managed project, I recently added some PHP generated targets and bash completion stopped working: pressing [tab] does not trigger completion, but inserts a tab character. I isolated the issue to this minimal Makefile: # TARGETS =…
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Any bash/rails plugin to autocomplete/suggest migration versions?

Every time I have to run/redo a particular migration in my rails app, I have to go through the following steps to obtain the exact version number: grep - Search the files in the db/migrate folder containing the model/table name that I need,…
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bash completion isn't working like it used to -- not escaping spaces and oddities in filenames, etc

Okay, I just don't understand why this isn't working automatically. When I'm working on my mac, spaces and other odd characters get escaped automatically when I do autocomplete in bash, but on my ubuntu box, they don't. Even worse, if I do escape…
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macosx lion bash tab completion for directories takes ages

At work, I have to wait 1s~5s for dir completion in iterm2. Same mba, but at home it works instantly.
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Bash completion for strings with spaces and punctuation

I'm trying to write a bash completion function that works for strings containing spaces and punctuation, even quotes may be in there. I extract these strings with sed from files and thus have them as a several lines of text where each one contains a…
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Failure to get bash completions when using the optcomplete module

I am trying to use python-optcomplete package (1.2-11.1 from Debian Testing): $ cat /etc/bash_completion.d/optcomplete _optcomplete() { COMPREPLY=( $( \ COMP_LINE=$COMP_LINE COMP_POINT=$COMP_POINT \ COMP_WORDS="${COMP_WORDS[*]}" …
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Im trying to get users input in Bash

I need a command that can ask the user for input and do something with the resuld such as run if they answer with a specific result. I tried read -p and i cant get input to work and i despretly need it
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What's the meaning of “the initial non-assignment word on the line” in shell

In Programmable Completion Builtins complete command, there is a -I argument. It said: The -I option indicates that other supplied options and actions should apply to completion on the initial non-assignment word on the line, or after a command…
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bash code to count A to z char with count string input string and give output in new string

Hi folks just started write code in bash but stuck in my own question in want to count a to alphabets repetation in string like read -p 'enter the string' str # SUPPOSE STRING USER ENTER IS input = AAASSSSFFRREEE i wanna get output…
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Bash script to ssh into multiple machines, each executing different commands

I have 3 ec2 machines, and on each machines I have to run some server. So I am trying to create a bash script to accomplish the task. sample script ssh -t ubuntu@server1 << EOL start server1 EOL ssh ubuntu@server2 << EOL start server2 EOL ssh…
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bash script with asynchronous while loop

I have the following bash script. your_token=tokenAddress number_to_airdrop=1 echo "Starting transfering" while IFS= read -r line do spl-token transfer $your_token $number_to_airdrop $line --allow-unfunded-recipient --fund-recipient done <…
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