On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:20:33 -0700, Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2007-03-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The >> .bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab >> completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out >> myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh >> myscript.sh. Is this behavior normal? Can I change the console >> behavior to tab out ./myscript.sh? > >Larry didn't address the case of > > sh myscript.sh > >which doesn't seem to work by default. However, you can tell bash >to expand the arguments to sh as commands by executing > > complete -c sh > Works great. Thanks Gary. > That is, if you don't use the bash-completion package. If you install > that, and tweak your ~/.bashrc (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some > hints), then you get this, and many other, programmable completion tweaks > by default. Not many hints in my .bashrc. It just has this code block. # If this shell is interactive, turn on programmable completion enhancements. # Any completions you add in ~/.bash_completion are sourced last. # case $- in # *i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;; # esac I am not familar with interactive mode and do not have a bash_completion file. complete -c sh Do I need to place this statement in the .bashrc? What is the proper syntax? I am asking for confirmation to avoid breaking my console. By the way, I do not have the bash_completion file or a template for it. I could easily touch the file if necessary. What is $- ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
