On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Has anyone here, by any chance, written their own TAB-completions for bash?
>>  I want to make a very simple one to only consider files ending in ".image"
>> to be completions for the command "squeak" (and another similar one for a
>> different program).  So I could type "squeak TAB" and the only image file in
>> the current directory will show up.
>
> I haven't played with them, but looking at /etc/bash_completion, it
> seems to be something like
>
> complete -f -X '!*.image' squeak
>
> That passes simple testing from my shell ...

I fear that the bash manual pape and the file
/usr/share/doc/bash/README.bash_completion.gz
indicate that it's just a tad more complex than that.

-- 
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

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