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zmbmartin

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Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 43

Use autocomplete in simple bash command/aliases

I have a really cheesy alias basically to use to cd into directory in public_html

cdw() {
  cd ~/public_html/$* 
}

how do I get that to use autocomplete with it?

Thanks

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

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Re: Use autocomplete in simple bash command/aliases

you'll have to write a completion file under /etc/bash_completion.d/.  you can take a look at some of the ones in there for examples (try to find a simple one). 

you basically have to build a list of what to complete (probably ~/public_html/* in your case), then hand that off to a completion function, source the file and try it.

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