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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Programmable completion for two arguments in bash Post 302868861 by KevinSjoberg on Tuesday 29th of October 2013 04:35:29 AM
Old 10-29-2013
Programmable completion for two arguments in bash

Hi there!

I have this script which handles bookmarks. Bookmarks are basically a string that point to a certain path, e.g., project -> ~/code/projects/project.

Currently I have working completion for the bookmarks:
Code:
~ $ m p<Tab>
~ $ m project

What I want to implement now is the cd command's behavior for the second argument.
Code:
~ $ m project c<Tab>
~ $ m project config/en<Tab>
~ $ m project config/environments

That is, I can complete directories, and directories only, as if I was currently in ~/code/projects/project.

The source can be found on GitHub as KevinSjoberg/m. (I'm not allowed to post links yet).

Any input is welcome!
 

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projects(1)							   User Commands						       projects(1)

NAME
projects - print project membership of user SYNOPSIS
projects [-dv] [ user] projects -l [projectname [projectname...]] DESCRIPTION
The projects command prints on standard output the projects to which the invoking user or an optionally specified user belongs. Each user belongs to some set of projects specified in the project(4) file and possibly in the associated NIS maps and LDAP databases for project information. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -d Prints only default project. -l Prints verbose info on each project projectname. If no projectnames are given, info on all projects is printed. -v Prints project descriptions along with project names. OPERANDS
The following operand is supported: projectnaDisplay information for the specified project. user Displays project memberships for the specified user. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying Membership for a Specified User example$ projects paul default beatles wings example$ projects ringo default beatles example$ projects -d paul beatles EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 1 A fatal error occurred during execution. 2 Invalid command line options were specified. FILES
/etc/project Local database containing valid project definitions for this machine. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Stability |See below. | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ The invocation is Evolving. The human-readable output is Unstable. SEE ALSO
getdefaultproj(3PROJECT), getprojent(3PROJECT), project(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 13 May 2004 projects(1)
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