Project info for bash completion

Created 1 Dec 2001 at 07:01 UTC by ianmacd, last modified 14 Feb 2003 at 12:45 UTC by redi.

Homepage: http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion

Freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashcompletion/

Notes:

As most users know, using standard bash completion, you can complete commands on the name of executables and files. However, since v2.04 of bash, programmable completion of the shell is possible. Using this facility, it's possible to intelligently construct complex command lines using very few keystrokes. Some examples:

ssh host<Tab>
This would complete on a list of hosts drawn from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file.
mount host:<Tab>
This would complete on a list of exported filesystems from host host.
make <Tab>
This would complete on a list of available targets in Makefile.
man 3 str<Tab>
This would complete on a list of all man pages that start with str in section 3 of the manual.

This project endeavours to gather together completion functions for the most frequently used commands and make them available in a single place.

License: GPL

This project has the following developers:

ianmacd is a Lead Developer.

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!