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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Abbreviated aliasing would be a great feature to bring to shells Post 303038212 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 27th of August 2019 10:21:50 PM
Old 08-27-2019
Have you had a look at bash completion scripts? These are quite powerful and configurable.

The simplest example with fixed list of arguments:

Code:
$ complete -W "cat dog" fuz
$ fuz <tab><tab>
cat     dog
$ fuz c<tab>

Another example if fuz takes directory as 1st parameter:
Code:
$compete -A directory fuz
$ fuz <tab><tab>
bin/  code/ perl/  photos/ proj/
$ fuz p<tab><tab>
perl/ photos/ proj/

There is also the ability to fully program the operation of the complete using a function which can be fully tailored to your needs.
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gthumb

gthumb(1)																 gthumb(1)

NAME

       gThumb - an image viewer and browser for GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       gthumb [--help] [--version] [-f] [--fullscreen] [-s] [--slideshow] [--import-photos] [directory] [filename] ...

DESCRIPTION

       With  gThumb  you  can  browse  your hard disk viewing thumbnails of image files.  It also lets you view single files (including GIF anima-
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OPTIONS

       -f, --fullscreen
	      Start in fullscreen mode.

       -s, --slideshow
	      Automatically start a slideshow.

       --import-photos
	      Automatically import digital camera photos.

       --help Output help information and exit.

       --version
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EXAMPLES

       To run this program the standard way type:

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	    gthumb *.jpg

AUTHORS

       Written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.

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