On 5/17/13 5:50 PM, Mario Signorino wrote: > Hi all > > I need some help and possibly also an advice. > > Is it possible to retrieve the COMPREPLY variable outside and/or after > calling the complete function?
No. The programmable completion code unsets COMPREPLY after the shell function completes. You might have some luck experimenting with the default completion feature (complete -D), but you'll have to do all the dispatching yourself. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/