Re: [Help-bash] Command completion with * in the middle?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/20/19 5:48 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 11:54 PM David Niklas <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Sadly, if there is such a way, I'm still searching for it...
>>
> 
> I think something like this does the trick?
> 
>     f() { COMPREPLY=($(compgen -c -X '!'"$3")); }
>     complete -I -F f -o bashdefault
> 
> i.e. generate all commands and then remove the ones that don't match the
> pattern supplied.

Ooh, that's clever.

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