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No space after option with bash completion
I'm trying to filter bash-completion suggestions. Here awf-gtk2 -s abc.png [TAB] display -h --help -s --screenshot (it's ridiculous) / and awf-gtk2 -s[TAB] add a space after -s (perfect), with:
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Why does tab autocomplete sometimes not work?
In bash (Ubuntu 24.10, but I guess this would apply to other versions/distributions) when you type in a console a command you can use TAB to autocomplete the filenames of the current directory. ...
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How to get a file quicker in TAB:menu-complete binding?
In bash, when binding TAB with menu-complete, I can cycle through the current files in the lexicographical or alphabetic order.
What if the file that I want is the last file in the order? How can I ...
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bash-completion doesn't work in Mignight Commander shell
Normal Ubuntu 22.04 install,
bash-completion is installed and works in a normal shell.
For example, if I type "docker " and press TAB,
it will show a list of Docker subcommands.
If I now ...
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Is it possible to tab complete by whole word in Bash
Suppose I have filenames as follows on my Linux system:
$ ls -1
file-index-00012.txt
file-index-00345.txt
question.txt
I start typing, where "|" represents the cursor:
$ cat fil|
If I ...
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How can I disable the "You have new mail in..." message in bash complete?
I have cron tasks logging messages to the system mail periodically. Mail check is enabled, but I don't want to see these messages when I hit TAB in the middle of typing a command.
Is there any way to ...
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Disable autocomplete but keep suggestions in Bash
I want disable autocomplete (pressing to Tab to complete my command automatically) on my Bash on Linux, but keep the double-Tab shortcut for showing suggestions, so that I can type the rest of the ...
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Bash programmable completion (double tab) will not complete in home directory
To be clear, I have tried MANY other answers in this fourm and others and it does NOT work for me. /home/user is also in my PATH variable.
In short, if I have a directory under my $HOME (/home/user1) ...
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How to know which completion function is being called?
I want to type somethingTabTab and know exactly which completion function gets called, so that I can use that function for completion of aliases.
This is to solve the following problem:
git push -d ...
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"_split_longopt: command not found" when trying tab-completion
For the past couple of weeks or so, I've noticed that, often, when I press the Tab key to try and complete a command in a bash shell in a terminal, I get an error message. It says:
bash: ...
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complete/compgen fails to suggest when options contain ':' (colon)
I'm failing to get complete to offer full suggestions when the options in ${COMPREPLY[@]} contain a : character. Instead, it only offers the prefix that is common to all suggestions.
Here's an ...
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Bash Completion Settings Not Working as Expected
I am trying to get bash tab completion to work as I would like, but the options do not seem produce the results I would expect. I am using bash 4.2.46 [4.2.46(2)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)], ...
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Is it normal for "complete -p git" to error until I autocomplete git first?
If I restart my terminal, I get an error when I type this:
$ complete -p git
bash: complete: git: no completion specification
But if I type git tab then run the complete command again, I get a ...
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Bash completion after quotation mark
I am experimenting with bash completion to write a general completion library in C associated with command line parsing and stumbled in a behavior for which I can find no documentation.
I am using the ...
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Diagnose bash autocomplete issues
I have one binary on my system, fio installed via package manager which doesn't autocomplete files with tab once you've typed fio . I guess this means something must over overridding the autocomplete ...
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