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How can I setup bash completion for the unset command, like when you use echo $XXX, you can get a completion for XXX?

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It seems to work already. – enzotib Dec 31 '11 at 13:22
@enzotib really ? i tried unset TM<tab> and nothing appears , but unset $TM<tab> , which is not the case ... – warl0ck Dec 31 '11 at 13:55
It probably works already with the bash completion package from caliban.org/bash/#completion_download installed. (On Fedora or with EPEL, yum install bash-completion.) – mattdm♦ Dec 31 '11 at 15:10

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You need to turn on bash's programmable completion system. There's a file called bash_completion distributed with bash that you must include from your .bashrc. On typical distributions, put this in ~/.bashrc:

. /etc/bash.completion

If this file is not present on your system, it may be in a separate package from the main bash executable, e.g. bash-completion on Debian.

If you specifically want completion for the unset command, that's

complete -v unset
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On my Ubuntu/Bash system:

TM1=A; TM2=B
unset TM<ESC><*>
 => unset TM1 TM2  (expands in the command line)
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