On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 01:38:29PM +0100, mick crane wrote: [...] > I wish I'd never looked now. Why? Granted, curiosity kills the cat, they say. But that's what we hackers and tinkerers thrive on, ain't it? What's a life without learning? > so they are functions defined in the actual bash code for other > words to get the result of ? OK. My hunch is that they have something to do with bash autocompletion. Since they are functions, not files, it's hard to say which package they come from (with on-board means, that is). But there are way more powerful off-board means. Enter Debian Code Search: https://codesearch.debian.net/ Put __load_completion into that little box and... yes, it comes from the package "bash-completion" (which I explicitly don't install: I tried it once and didn't like it. Too much magic. But horses for courses, as they say, too :) Enjoy -- tomás
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