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Re: [Help-bash] How to output TAB completion result to pipe?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] How to output TAB completion result to pipe?
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:11:04 -0400
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On 8/1/12 4:49 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> TAB completion may results in many candidates, in which case I want to
> pipe it to less or a file. Is there a way to do?

Sure.  Readline uses rl_outstream (stderr) for output.  Use `exec' to
temporarily redirect it where you want.

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