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Top Forums Programming Creating a bash based restricted shell Post 302849751 by noamr on Tuesday 3rd of September 2013 07:26:26 AM
Old 09-03-2013
Question Creating a bash based shell with auto complete
Hello.

I need to write a command line interface that can be invoked either directly from the shell (command sub-command arguments), or as a shell that can process sub-commands.
i want to use bash auto completion for both scenarios.

example: lets say my CLI module is called 'mycli' and there are 3 sub commands: add, list, delete.

for the first type of usage, one would write from the prompt:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$mycli add -name myname

for the second type of usage, one would do the following:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$mycli
MYCLI>add -name myname
MYCLI>list

i know how to create a bash autocomplete for the first example. but don't know how to create a shell-like prompt that will use bash auto complete for sub command processing.

any suggestions?
Last edited by noamr; 09-03-2013 at 08:47 AM..
 

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