command prompter

[Terrence Enger]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:47 -0400, Tim Middleton wrote:
> 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. (-; 

Tyler Aviss' to your message showed me how to get command completion to
show the arguments to a command.  The result for find seems good enough
for me.

I do have bash-completion installed, and I am curious to see what more
it does for a program which is supported.  Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Terry.


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