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[ILUG] Bash equivalent to compctl?

[ILUG] Bash equivalent to compctl?

Colm MacCarthaigh colm at stdlib.net
Mon Mar 22 11:36:04 GMT 2004


On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:52:17AM -0000, P Mc K wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anybody know how to do the following in bash? Cheers.
> 
> compctl -s "`awk '/alias/ {print $2}' ~/.o2smsrc`" + o2sms

# define a _numbers function to fill a completion word list
_numbers()
{
	COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W `awk '/alias/ {print $2}' ~/.o2smsrc` ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} ) )
}

# associate it with o2sms
complete -F _numbers -o default o2sms

-- 
Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net



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