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Autocomplete custom scripts? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As my time with linux, I created a lot of scripts. Some of them have input parameters and sometimes I just forget this parameters.

So I wonder if there is some way to create autocomplete parameters, like i autocomplete a path by pressing the tab key?

For example a script. ./test.sh can be completed with parameter-one, eg. ./test.sh parameter-one or ./test.sh parameter-two. If i type now ./test.sh followed by tab it should add parameter-one if i press tab again it should change to parameter-two.

How can I do that? I'm on bash…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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 !