command prompter

[Tim Middleton]

debian/ubuntu has a package called "bash-completion" that drops a bunch of 
scripts to do auto-completion for a bunch of programs into 
/etc/bash_completion.d/ 

Other linux platforms probably have a similar package (freebsd does also). 

The ubuntu package points to this url: http://bash-
completion.alioth.debian.org/

The freebsd package points here: http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml

The collection of scripts isn't very extensive. But if there's any commands 
you want to add support for, these scripts can serve as example.

"find" is not there, for example. But find has *so* many options it'd probably 
just  fill up your screen anyhow. (-; 



On Friday 02 October 2009 14:38:16 Terrence Enger wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:41 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Terrence Enger wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I am used, working on another platform, to having a tool which relieves
> > > of the need to remember command line parameters ... sort of an entry
> > > panel with brief prompts and hyperlinks to the applicable part of the
> > > man page.
> > >
> > > Is there such a tool for GNU/Linux?  Nothing applicable jumped out at
> > > me from the first hundred results of a google search for linux command
> > > prompter.
> > >
> > > If this does not already exist, is there anybody else who thinks maybe
> > > it should?  If anybody expresses an interest, I shall put together an
> > > example of what it might do for you.
> >
> >     You could do it with bash's completion functions.
> 
> Does that know anything about the paramaters needed for particular
> commands.  For example, it is not long since I went to `man find` for a
> reminder that I wanted to specify argument -wholename instead of -name,
> the latter being what my fingers unhelpfully remembered.
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry.
> 
> 
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