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Questions about command completion in the Bash Unix shell.

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Is it possible to enable bash_completion for :! or :r ! in VIM?

I can use :shell to enter current dir and run commands. bash_completion work fine. But how get bash_completion working in :! command or :r ! command case? Note. I am Emacs user and Emacs M-! command don't allow such things (also M-x shell, you need…
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Extending BASH completion with Python Click

I'm wanting to customize the BASH completion functionality of my Python Click CLI program to include not only the commands / subcommands of the script, but also objects that the script creates. Let's say my program is called cli-tool, and it can…
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Why does "$" perform filename completion?

While trying to configure the programmable completion, I came across a behavior I don't understand. Given those three completion scenarios, this is the way I understand them: $ Beginning of the line --> use complete -E --> if it…
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Can I disable a particular git command?

With new versions of git new commands have been added which I will probably never use. Is there a way I can disable these commands so that I my tab completion is faster? For ex: before, git check would autocomplete to git checkout But now git…
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Why doesn't kubectl bash completion work on macOS/OS X?

I followed the instructions for installing Bash completion as given by kubectl completion -h: I installed bash-completion via Homebrew In my ~/.bashrc, I first source bash-completion then output from the completion kubectl subcommand: source…
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Showing only the substrings of COMPREPLY bash completion options to the user

In a bash completion script, suppose COMPREPLY=(aa/ba/ aa/bb/). When the script is invoked, the completion options looks like this to the user: $ foo aa/b aa/ba/ aa/bb/ However, I want to have a bit more control over how these options are…
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Changing tab-completion for read builtin in bash

The current tab-completion while "read -e" is active in bash seems to be only matching filenames: read -e [[TabTab]] abc.txt bcd.txt cde.txt I want the completion to be a set of strings defined by me, while file/dir/hostname-completion etc.…
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Bash history expansion with tab completion

I make frequent use of command history expansion using the form !n:m, where n is the number of the historical command and m is the number of the argument, or short forms thereof. Is there a way to expand such arguments in situ, so that I can then…
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Bash tab-completion not working

I am trying to troubleshoot why the bash tab-completion isn't working on my fedora 19 desktop. I am afraid I just know what else to add to this that might be relevant.
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cmdArgs bash completion

The cmdArgs package for Haskell provide command option parsing. based on this page from the docs http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cmdargs/0.10.3/doc/html/System-Console-CmdArgs-Explicit.html#g:4 and its source…
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Bash programmable completion when typing "first command"

Is there a way how to control completion for first command being typed on bash4 command prompt? I can control completions for "empty line" with complete -E, but as soon as some characters are typed, bash (or possibly readline) gives me all filenames…
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Can bash omit backupfiles when completing commands?

When completing commands, executables in $PATH and all, I would like to omit files named #foo# and bar~. I don't mind having these backup-files laying around, but prefer not to see them when completing commands. Do I need to somehow write a…
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How to autocomplete files under specific directory?

I created a command memo as follows: memo() { vi $HOME/memo/$1 } I want to apply bash-completion to my memo to open files that is already in $HOME/memo directory: $ memo [TAB] # to show files in $HOME/memo $HOME/memo contains directory, so…
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How to bash complete a GNU long option with given set of arguments?

GNU advises to use --name=value syntax for passing argument for long option. It enables a long option to accept an argument that is itself optional. Suppose you have a complete set of possible arguments. How do you write a bash completion code for…
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Django Bash completion not working on manage.py

I am trying out the django_bash_completion script provided by Django but can't use it with python manage.py command. I am trying out the django_bash_completion script provided by Django. I have added it to active script in the virtual environment.…
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