a feature provided by interactive programs such as shells and text editors that inserts text in order to complete a word or phrase that the user is likely intending to compose
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Create bash completion script to autocomplete paths after is-equal sign?
I want to create a bash completion script which recognises arguments of the form --arg and --some-arg=file.
After reading this tutorial and some examples in /usr/share/bash_completion/completions/, ...
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vi <TAB> completes only directories in bash
In a directory I type vi and then tab (twice), this gives me
user$ vi
CMakeFiles/ global/ libs/
whereas ls followed by 2 tabs gives me
user$ ls
! core.log CMakeFiles/ global/ libs/ ...
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Custom bash autocomplete for git breaks other git autocomplete features
I am trying to add autocompletion to git commit upon hitting TabTab.
The autocomplete feature I am working on is based on a branch-naming convention. The convention is to append the PivotalTracker ...
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1answer
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refresh bash tab completion
I have a script for auto-completing my ssh-hosts. If I change my ~/.ssh/config the auto-completion is not updated automatically, though. This does not surprise me. In a new shell, the new entry is ...
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How to fix Linux filename tab autocomplete that is appending a space instead of trailing slash on directories?
For some strange reason my filename autocomplete is behaving differently than normal. Given the following file structure ./foobar/file.txt, if I want to delete file.txt, I type rm ...
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3answers
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Bash Auto-Completion feature for SSHing into Different Hosts
I have big list of servers which I normally ssh to all the time. Is there any way using bash or zsh so that I can keep the list of hostname and bash auto-completion goes through the file and gives me ...
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bash autocompletion resets on every window
My terminal autocompletion does not work properly when I use root.
source /etc/bash_completion works if I invoke that manually.
I need to write above code in every new root terminal to be able to ...
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2answers
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How to specify timeout for tab completion in zsh?
Zsh's completion feature is great except for this one. When I try to complete in a folder with lots of files/network folder, it takes a couple of minutes and prints this error.
example.com:~$ ls ...
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Inhibit Variable Expansion in Paths
How do I prevent Zshell (and Bash I assume) from expanding environment variables in paths be completed as shown in the following example:
$PREFIX/alt/li
should expand to
$PREFIX/alt/lib
and not ...
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1answer
107 views
Change completion behaviour with brace expansion in zsh
I have got used to using tab-autocompleting inside braces without expanding in zsh. This was possible, while I used zsh with a basic grml-config. Since I migrated to oh-my-zsh, I can't reproduce this ...
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1answer
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Tab completion when `patch` asks for filename
When the patch command doesn't find the file to patch, it asks for a filename.
Is there any way to get this to use tab complete?
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1answer
43 views
List the bash completion that's current active on a program?
Is there anyway to list the bash completion function in use for current command ?
e.g for ls
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Executing zsh rehash after build
I have a build script that can change what binaries are in my $PATH (it doesn't edit $PATH itself, but it adds/deletes files to folders that are already in $PATH). zsh's autocompletion doesn't update ...
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1answer
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oh-my-zsh completion on home directory names
I recently switched to zsh from bash, and I'm using oh-my-zsh. There's a completion behaviour I don't want: in any directory, the list of autocompletion candidates seems to include the names of all ...
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1answer
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Git auto-complete
I am using Git as many of you do. Also, I don't use any GUI for that — just CLI. So I was wondering: are there any way to make Git commands (git status, git checkout etc.) complete themselves when ...
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances?
More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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3answers
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Auto-completion of words from the terminal buffer
In editors like vim and emacs, one can use hotkeys like C-p (vim) or M-/ (emacs) to perform auto-completion on the current word using other words in the same buffer.
Is it possible to achieve the ...
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Bash autocomplete gives different file name than ls
An incredibly strange thing just happened. Through a serious typo, I entered
cp filename.xsl .^?~
Yeah, that's right, dot-caret-questionmark-tilde! Truth is stranger than fiction.
It gets weirder. ...
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1answer
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Vim insert mode completion for sentences
I would like to have insert mode completion for sentences rather than lines in vim.
C-x C-l completes lines, but cannot complete sentences that do not start with a new line.
For example:
I have a ...
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1answer
213 views
Cancel zsh tab completion
Is there a way to cancel a completion once it has been started? I sometimes foolishly press tab to autocomplete make targets (only from sheer indolence) and then end up having to wait for a longer ...
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vim custom pop up menu
How do I create a custom completion pop up menu.
I would like to be able to begin typing a part of a string then press a custom key combination to bring up a pop up completion of just a certain group ...
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2answers
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What causes ln: //: Is a directory?
When linking a directory to root, I get this error:
$ ln -s ~/inbox/ /
$ ln: //: Is a directory
Bash autocompletes the directory path by adding a /. I've tried escaping without success.
$ ln -s ...
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1answer
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How to enable tab completion of wildcards in bash?
How can I enable tab completion in bash for a statement such as vim db/migrate/*crea? Essentially I am looking for tab completion to match the regular expression and present the options.
How would ...
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How to disable autocompletion for sudo …?
I am new to zsh and I like it a lot, especially with oh-my-zsh plugin. I installed oh-my-zsh with its default values and can't figure out how to turn off autocompletion for specific commands, that I ...
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1answer
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How ignore PATH with `source` completion
I can't find any 'detailed enough' documentation about zstyle, and I'm surprised that no one faced this problem before:
here is what I get with tab completion:
source l<TAB>
l2ping* ...
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1answer
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Complete only at the beginning of the word
I've got an issue with ZSH autocompletion, and I can't find the right keyworks to get rid of it.
For instance, with files like
$ ls
Accelion, titi toto tata
I would like to write:
$ ls ...
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How can I expand a relative path at the command line, with tab completion?
In bash is there any way to expand a relative path into an absolute path, perhaps with tab completion?
I ask because sometimes I will search for a file, find it, then vim it:
cd /etc
cd apache2
cd ...
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scp: How to Enable Autocompletion for Remote Paths?
I remote copied a file to my laptop using:
scp someFile USER@192.168.178.32:/home/USER/put/it/some/where/oh/damn/you/here
I am too lazy for this! I want to be able to autocomplete the remote path ...
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Complete files from a different directory in bash
I wrote two functions push and pull to copy files to and from a directory ($FILE_EXCHANGE_DIR). I want bash to autocomplete names from that directory when I use the pull function. I want the ...
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1answer
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Configure autocomplete for the first argument, leave the others alone
I have a utility that takes a load of different arguments. For now, I want to autocomplete the first argument, but leave all the others to fall through to normal autocompletion. How do I do that?
...
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Weird Stuff in Terminal When I Hit Tab
For some reason, today, everytime I hit tab in the terminal this shows up:
cat bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_CA)
Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n)
This ...
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1answer
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Autocompletion for Makefile rules in tcsh
I'm using tcsh in a SUSE 11 box and I realized that when typing
makeTab
it allows me to auto-complete the rules available within the Makefile, not the files that are inside the current directory.
...
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1answer
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ZSH takes two tabs to complete filenames
I love Zsh's tab completions, but it's frustrating when there is only one possible option and I have to tab twice to tab complete the filename.
For example, if this is a list of files in a directory:
...
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Files with no .sh extension not considered for autocompletion in zsh
I have noticed that unless I add an .sh extension to my shell scripts, Zsh does not suggest them for autocompletion for execution despite having them in my PATH. I have the same problem if I cd into ...
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How to pipe the list of commands displayed by of “tab complete”?
When using commands in bash I like the double tab option to display the available commands. Some commands have more possible matches than others:
Is there a way I can pipe the output of the double ...
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1answer
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How to output string completions to stdout?
Some of the git commands have many options, and it would often be useful to search through them for the one I need - I was just looking for the option which controls the TAB width in git-gui, but ...
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How does Bash path completion work with sudo?
Tab path completion does not work (at least on Ubuntu and AFAIK Arch) with
sudo mount <whatever>
The iso file I am trying to mount is not in /etc/fstab. If I just type
mount <whatever>
...
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1answer
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Terminal does not source .zshrc with custom colors for ls and cd command
I customized the directory and file colors for ls and cd + TAB. Here is my configuration.
My configuration
My system environment.
Ubuntu 10.10
zsh 4.3.10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
oh-my-zsh // ...
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1answer
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zsh - fully expand binary path on <tab>
In my current zsh behaviour, hitting tab after typing "sudo" just adds a space.
$ sudo ...
What I really want is for the tab to fully expand to the path of the binary it is about to execute when I ...
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1answer
137 views
Pipe zsh auto completion list to file or less
zsh: do you wish to see all 923 possibilities (462 lines)?
Yes please, but in a file or less.
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2answers
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zsh autocomplete directory
I'm new to zsh and one thing that I do quite often is execute shell scripts that are in a directory of mine called Scripts. I'm not always inside of the Scripts directory, however... I may be in ...
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1answer
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Custom bash completion with directories and a fixed set
I'm trying to setup a bash completion, and have two problems
For parameter one, I needed a completion for directories
For parameter two, a fixed array for completion, I just don't know how to let ...
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1answer
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Autocomplete of filename in directory
This question is quite similar to this one, but I can't understand the solution. I also know this tutorial, but still I am unable to understand what I am doing wrong.
I am trying to autocomplete the ...
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2answers
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Bash completion for `unset` command
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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1answer
237 views
Zsh autocomplete ls command with directories only
Suppose I have following files and directories:
% ls
bui00293 buiawer builds/ buiowpe/
I want to list the content of ...
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autocomplete filenames using compgen
As part of a larger autocomplete function I'm writing, I want to use compgen to generate a list of files. I read the bash manual entries for compgen and complete, and from there I assumed that the ...
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Terminal autocomplete: cycle through suggestions
I had this on my Ubuntu setup and since I switched to Fedora I want to set it and I forgot how... The idea is simple :
I don't want the terminal to show me suggestions when I double tab, instead I ...
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Saving tab completion possibilities to a file
Instead of displaying all possibilities on terminal screen, as in:
$ ls /etc/<TAB>
Display all 230 possibilities? (y or n)
I want to save all possibilities to a file.
ls /etc/ > file.txt ...
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1answer
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compgen : ignoring case
I'm trying to implement a custom bash completion as described here. However, it seems that compgen is case-sensitive. Is there a way to turn it case-insensitive in that context ?
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Make BASH's Tab Completion Fill In First Match?
Is there any way to make BASH fill in the first match when I press TAB, kind of like the Windows command prompt?
(It should still display the list of matches, but it should cycle through them when I ...
