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Re: bash completion and spaces



David Wright wrote:
> > 
> > I have an example app which can be run only as "app3 -h test1 -s foo" or
> > "app3 -h test2 -s bar". So I decided to provide it with a small manual
> > completion for convenience.
> > 
> > [vas@test2 ~]$ ./list.sh 
> > -h test1 -s foo
> > -h test2 -s bar
> > [vas@test2 ~]$ complete -C ./list.sh app3
> > [vas@test2 ~]$
> > 
> > The result however is discouraging, the completion mechanism won't add
> > whole lines of parameters, it's trying to split on spaces (here I press
> > <TAB> several times:
> > 
> > [vas@test2 ~]$ app3 -h -h -h test
> > 
> > Can you please give a hint how to make it complete "app3" with either
> > "-h test1 -s foo" or "-h test2 -s bar" as a whole?
> > 
> > I would not like to make all this too complicated, write complex
> > completion funcions if possible. A static (-W) completion would be even
> > better.
> 
> Perhaps:
> 
> alias app3a='app3 -h test1 -s foo'
> alias app3b='app3 -h test2 -s bar'

No, not alias, I'd like to do it via bash completion. I may want to make
it dynamic eventually, the problem is in the spaces.

-- 
Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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