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Re: [Help-bash] How to let completion sorted by time?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] How to let completion sorted by time? |
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Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:19:16 -0500 |
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On 2/6/18 11:24 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
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> If I type TAB to complete a command with files in a directory, the
> files will be sorted by alphabetic order. Is there a way to print them
> ordered by their modification time when I type TAB? Thanks.
You can do it if you're using programmable completion. Use a shell
function, where you can sort the contents of $COMPREPLY any way you want,
and use `-o nosort' as one of the options when you install the compspec.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/