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cd + bash completion script
I have web projects in /var/www/projects/some/long/path/strange-project-name
Now I want to type in terminal:
webs str{TAB}
It should autocomplete to the webs strange-project-name (basing on ls ...
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How to edit command completion for ssh on bash?
(I've asked this question regarding zsh, but I also use bash and would find it useful there too--as I'm guessing many others would too since bash has many more users than zsh.)
I'd like to set up ...
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How to edit command completion for ssh on zsh?
I'd like to set up command completion on zsh to display host names after I type
ssh [TAB]
taking the names out of my .ssh/config file (and preferably from known_hosts and /etc/hosts and anywhere ...
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Bash Completion Script Help
So I'm just starting to learn about bash completion scripts, and I started to work on one for a tool I use all the time. First I built the script using a set list of options:
_zf_comp()
{
local ...
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How to get both tab completion and readline editing in mingw/msys shell?
I'm running msys 1.0 on Win2K using the rxvt.exe terminal. By default, tab-completion works, but when I do 'set -o vi' to enable vi-readline editing, tab-completion stops working. Surely I can have my ...
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Stop bash tab completion from thinking I want to cd into .svn directories
I have a folder structure that's in subversion.
There are a whole pile of top level directories that have only 1 sub folder. (eg src/com/example). Normally when I want to cd into the example folder I ...
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Getting more helpful tab completion prompts in bash?
Let's say I have a directory with a few files in it like this:
$ ls
file1 file2 file3
And I want to do some tab completion in bash:
$ cat file<tab>
file1 file2 file3
I remember seeing ...
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TAB completon and mc problems
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
This is the server version.
When I ssh into it, I encounter the following problems:
Problem 1
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