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gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 213

Bash completion

i see that *without* installing `bash-completion` there are already several files in /usr/share/bash-completion/...

what's the proper way to consume those?

the completion package install 1Mb of other files and a script that does its magic and hooks up everything via a /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion script. But without the script and the larger package, how am i supposed to use the ones that are included on the regular bash packages? ...not asking how to make it work, but if I am missing something that enable those completions like the full package does.

Or are those just placed there by other packages because they assume there will be bash-completion installed and are useless without it?

Docbroke

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: Bash completion

You can check which package owns the file with

pacman -Qo <file with path>

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mpan

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Re: Bash completion

“/usr/share/bash-completion” is a place for drop-in files. Many packages⁽¹⁾ put files there. The files in “/usr/share/bash-completion/completions” are plain scripts, which can be sourced into your shell.
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⁽¹⁾ 421 at this point.

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