Re: [Help-bash] Command completion with '*'

[Arkadiusz Drabczyk]

On 2015-11-21, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My current configuration of bash only allow me to complete a command
> with its prefix. For example, if I type TAB after 'ls', I will see the
> commands starting with `ls`.
>
> Sometimes, too many commands are shown, and I want to restrict what
> are shown. For example, I may want to type TAB after 'ls*f', so that
> 'lsof' will be shown but other commands not ending with 's' will not
> be shown. Is this feature available in bash?
>

Interesting.  I don't know how to do it off the top of my head and if
it's even possible but you can start with something like this:

$ alias "c=compgen -c | egrep "
$ c "^ls.*f"
lsof

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Arkadiusz Drabczyk <address@hidden>