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Disable networked tab completion with bash
Networked applications like rsync and scp can tab complete when they are enabled with bash. But what if you want local tab completion without remote tab completion? Is it possible?
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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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