Re: Pipping the output of bash completion; command line navigation

["Stefan Waidele jun." <Stefan@Waidele.net>]

Josh Rehman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to grep through the output of bash 
> command line completion. If you type "k" and then tab twice, you'll be 
> asked to show all 398,499 entries on your path, y or n. Hit y and a big 
> list comes up. Seems like it would be nice to search through that list, 
> but there is no obvious way to pipe it to anything (like grep).

'script' lets you log complete sessions to a file.

You could to something like (Sorry for the german output):

stw@sarge:~$ script
Script wurde gestartet, die Datei ist typescript
stw@sarge:~$ k<TAB><TAB>
Display all 162 possibilities? (y or n) y
[...]
stw@sarge:~$ exit
Script wurde beendet, die Datei ist typescript
stw@sarge:~$ less typescript

HTH,

Stefan