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Here's an article that does this: https://iridakos.com/programming/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-completion-tutorial
I have done this for one of my own tools
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, which is a function that switches to a tmux session, or creates it if it doesn't exist:Usage
Many thx. This is exactly what I want. Will try that when I'm batch from vacation.
This really looks great, I got a question though. As I understand it, it works based on your bash_history which can be very small or autodeleted after each poweroff for privacy & security reasons.
So it doesn't work in that case. However, creating a file containing a list or array? Of commands could that be a possible way to implemented a similar behavior?
I'm asking because I'm not very proficient in any programming language but have done some small bash scripts here and there and quite interested in this functionality !