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Re: [Help-bash] command completion with just executable but no directory
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] command completion with just executable but no directory |
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Mon, 14 May 2012 16:07:49 -0400 |
> Hi,
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> Suppose that I have a directory xxx and an executable yyy in '..'.
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> compgen -c will show both xxx and yyy. If I just want to show the
> executable yyy, is there a convenient option to do so?
There is not a convenient option to exclude directories. You can use a
shell function to remove them from the output of `compgen -c'.
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