Top "Bash-completion" questions

Questions about command completion in the Bash Unix shell.

Running bash commands in the background without printing job and process ids

To run a process in the background in bash is fairly easy. $ echo "Hello I'm a background task" & [1] 2076 Hello …

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A confusion about ${array[*]} versus ${array[@]} in the context of a bash completion

I'm taking a stab at writing a bash completion for the first time, and I'm a bit confused about about …

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bash completion of makefile target

Suppose I have a simple makefile like: hello: echo "hello world" bye: echo "bye bye" Then in bash I want …

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Git completion and PS1 not working: "__git_ps1: command not found" on "sudo -s" or "sudo su" on Ubuntu 12.04

I installed git and git-flow completion adding these line to .bashrc of root and a normal_user on a Ubuntu 12.04 …

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Git tab completion not working in zsh on mac

No matter what I try and do I can't seem to make git tab/auto completion work in my zsh …

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Python argparse and bash completion

I would like to get auto-completion on my python scripts also in the arguments. I had never really understood how …

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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 …

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Get autocompletion when invoking a "read" inside a Bash script

Inside my Bash script, I'm reading some variables entered by the user with read: read -p "Glassfish Path:" GF_DIR …

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Cygwin git tab completion

I installed Cygwin on windows and one of the default packages is git tab completion, but I don't have tab …

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Getting "complete" and "menu-complete" to work together

I found out that the Bash shell supports a type of autocompletion that is different from the "traditional" autocompletion, where …

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