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Questions about command completion in the Bash Unix shell.

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Bash completion for path in argument (with equals sign present)

I used to be able to type the following: $> ./foo --arg= Where foo is any program I wrote, and it would give me a list of files in the current directory, just like tab-completion normally does. I didn't have to make any changes to…
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Does bash source bash completion files in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d by default?

I have a bunch of bash completion files in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d most of the scripts in there have something like this at the bottom of them: complete -F _tmux tmux the above is for tmux. My question is - it doesn't look like bash by…
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cp copy command with bash brace expansion

at the bash prompt I can perform this copy cp file.txt test1.txt but if I try to copy file.txt to several files like so cp file.txt test{2..4}.txt I get error cp: target `test4.txt' is not a directory
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bash completion and git commit --message

I use Git on the command line. I often develop new features in git branches which are named after the Jira issues (Wikipedia: JIRA) related to them, e.g. branch "new-123" for Jira ticket "NEW-123". I have a local git prepare-commit-msg hook which…
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Branch autocompletion does not work with git alias for push

I am using Git with git-completion and everything works fine with a single exception: when I do git p some_remote [TAB] I get as autocomplete suggestions the files in the current directory (wrong). p is a Git alias: $ cat ~/.gitconfig [alias] p…
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Bash completion inside backticks or $() using complete

Consider this one-liner to activate bash completion for foobar: complete -F _known_hosts foobar This shows a list of completion options for > foobar but not for > $(foobar or > `foobar I think it makes a lot…
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Zsh function: forward completion to subfunction

Many times I end up writting wrapper function around existing ones, for instance: function gl { some_computed_stuff=... git --no-pager log --reverse $some_computed_stuff "$@" } function m { make "$@" && notify-send success || notify-send…
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bash tabbing for autocompletion escapes $

In shell (GNU bash, version 4.2.47(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)), when I hit tab for autocompletion, the "$" is escaped after the variable name is completed, but if there is no completion then it just bells. E.g. $ ls $JDK_H results in $…
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How to extend bash-completion with the already exist completion in another file?

For example, there is bash-completion for rar on linux, I want to extend, make more completions for the same command - rar, maybe for my own filename extension, but I don't want to touch the already existing completion script, how to start…
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Specifying two file extensions in bash complete

I am trying to modify bash complete properties. I can exclude a file extension for a command thusly: complete -f -X '*hi' vim I want to specify two file names for exclusion. How do I do this? Note: the following command did not work. complete -f -X…
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Bash completion: compgen a wordlist as if they were paths - Only suggest up until next slash

I'm working on a bash completion script for a dot file management utility. The tool has a command dots diff [filename] that will show the difference between the installed dot file and the source dot file. It also has a command dots files which lists…
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Tcsh and/or bash directory completion with variable hidden root prefix

I'm trying to set up directory completion in tcsh and/or bash (both are used at my site) with a slight twist: for a particular command "foo", I'd like to have completion use a custom function to match the first /-delimited term to an actual subtree…
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Why the backslash in bash?

I exported a variable in ~/.bashrc as follows (followed by source ~/.bashrc) export w=/home/user/workspace/ When I'm on commandline I try to access sub-directories of $w in following way user$ vi $w/ After this when I hit the tab key, a mysterious…
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custom directory completion appends whitespace

I have the following directory structure: /home/tichy/xxx/yyy/aaa /home/tichy/xxx/yyy/aab /home/tichy/xxx/yyy/aac I would like to enter cdw y and get cdw yyy/ as a result, so I could add cdw yyy/a and get cdw yyy/aa The…
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How to complete rustup/cargo commands?

I have rustup+rust+cargo installed using the official installation script. How do I enable shell completions, to be able to type cargo in the terminal and see the possible commands such as cargo check?
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