Re: bash completion and spaces

[davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 davidson wrote:

Two corrections to previous message.

[dd]
> % Proposal C
>
> In that case, you could get all but the last argument completed like
> so:
>
> $ complete -A hostname -P '-h ' -S ' -s'

1. At the end of the line above, the command name is missing.

 $ complete -A hostname -P '-h ' -S ' -s' app3

[dd] 
> % Proposal D
>
> $ cat ~/.inputrc # a literal Shift-TAB is inside the double quotes
> "   ": menu-complete

2. The '^[' above is an artifact of...something. In my ~/.inputrc
there is nothing inside those double quotes except for a literal
Shift-TAB (encoded as ASCII ESC character 0x1b followed by TAB 0x09).

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