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windrider

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Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 27

n00b question about bashrc completion

lets say i wanna auto complete with .torrent files when i type btdl (tab), i put this in my bashrc file

complete -f -o default -X '!*.+(torrent|TORRENT)' btdownloadcurses.py btdl

however i want to do more than this. i want the listed candidates to be sorted by date. So for example when i have 14 torrent files in my current directory, when i enter

btdl (tab)

i want the files displayed by pressing to be displayed in order of date of modification of the file.

can anyone kindly teach me how to do this.

i suspect its just an additional -something option in the above line?

IceRAM

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2004-03-04

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Re: n00b question about bashrc completion

Hmmm.. I wasn't aware bash could do such magic with its completion... must investigate further...

Thanks for bringing this up on the forums.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: n00b question about bashrc completion

Hmmm.. I wasn't aware bash could do such magic with its completion... must investigate further...

Thanks for bringing this up on the forums.

Yeah it's part of the bash_completion package... I don't know the syntax myself... but there's a million examples in /etc

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windrider

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Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 27

Re: n00b question about bashrc completion

i couldnt get bash-completion package to work, i'm using the default .bashrc in my user dir for this.