I installed Cygwin on windows and one of the default packages is git tab completion, but I don't have tab completion. I did some searching and found a note saying it isn't enabled by default. I co...

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 ...

Is it possible to get command-line autocompletion of python -m package.subpackage.module? This is similar to, but not the same as, python ./package/subpackage/module.py, which does autocomplete t...

The following bash completion passes an array of possible words (i.e. completions) to compgen. basenames=("foo" "fu bar" "baz"); COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "${basenames[*]}" -- "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CW...

No matter what I try and do I can't seem to make git tab/auto completion work in my zsh shell. I've downloaded the bash-completion script and the zsh-completion one and followed the instructions, b...

Inside my Bash script, I'm reading some variables entered by the user with read: read -p "Glassfish Path:" GF_DIR Now I want that the user gets a autocompletion when he has to enter a directory,...

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

I'm making a bash script which presents a command line to the user. The cli code is as this: #!/bin/bash cmd1() { echo $FUNCNAME: "$@" } cmd2() { echo $FUNCNAME: "$@" } cmdN() { echo $FUNCN...

Suppose I have a simple makefile like: hello: echo "hello world" bye: echo "bye bye" Then in bash I want something like: make h < tab > so it can complete to make hello I found a...

I'm having a problem with bash-completion when the possible options may contain spaces. Let's say I want a function which echoes the first argument: function test1() { echo $1 } I generate a l...

I currently have a Bash completion file which completes a single parameter from a list of allowed commands for a script called pbt. This is the working Bash completion file: _pbt_complete() { loca...

I have implemented some perl scripts and in some cases i have to pass some command line args into my program.Usability perspective i have decided to add some bash completion script into my project....

Let's say I have these variables defined in my bashrc: i='cgi-bin/internal'; e='cgi-bin/external'; f='cgi-bin/foo'; b='cgi-bin/bar'; ad='cgi-bin/admin'; #etc... When I use the variable on t...

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. Le...

Inside my Bash Completion file, i'm looking up completion-strings by an external script, which takes some time (1-2 seconds). Since these strings mostly stay the same for the rest of the time the c...

builtin completion The default completion for git clone (reproduced below) gives tab completion for --* options: _git_clone () { case "$cur" in --*) __gitcomp_builtin clone return ;; esac }...

Background I have successfully configured Bash completion for various Git aliases. For example: $ git config alias.subject !git --no-pager show --quiet --pretty='%s' $ function _git_subject() { _gi...

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 fo...

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 type...

In my .bash_profile, I have a lot of functional shortcuts for git. For example: function gitpull() { branch="$1" if [[ -z $branch ]]; then current_branch=`git symbolic-ref -q --short HEAD` gi...

I'm trying to write a small command launcher application, and would like to use bash's tab completions in my own completion system. I've been able to get a list of completions for general commands ...

Consider this one-liner to activate bash completion for foobar: complete -F _known_hosts foobar This shows a list of completion options for > foobar <TAB> <TAB> but not for &g...

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 ...

I'm trying to provide a bash completion script for my CLI tool that is written in Python. According to the Python Packaging Authority, data_files in setup.py is exactly what I need: Although con...

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 arg...