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gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

[solved] tab completion on bash alias

Hello everybody,

I got my install up and running .
But now I am trying to improbe productivity by adding a simple command:
cd %1 && ls

I got it working by making it like this:

cc () {
    cd $* && ls
}

This works exactly as I want it. But it doesn`t have tab completion!
Is it possible to enable this?

(if I change the function name to cd it does have tab completion but it goes in an endless loop, learnt that the hard way)

Last edited by gnur (2008-11-07 15:40:55)

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: [solved] tab completion on bash alias

I tried it out and it seems to work fine.

filou.linux

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From: Zurich

Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 87

Re: [solved] tab completion on bash alias

erm... do you have bash-completion installed and configured (in .bashrc)?

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: [solved] tab completion on bash alias

Hmm.. you think typing c<tab><tab><tab><tab><tab><tab>... will be faster then typing cc?
There are a lot of commands that start with c...

Other then that, it should work yes.  I think you don't even need the bash-completion package. built in tab-completion should do afaik.

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gnur

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Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 6

Re: [solved] tab completion on bash alias

I think i should have been more clear.
I meant the completion wasn't working for the folder names.
So cc /ho<tab> won't give me home, it doesn't do anything at all.

//edit: it seems that restarting X gave me they joy of it working.

Last edited by gnur (2008-11-07 15:40:07)