I am trying to do a universal installer to have a single-entry point to 
install everything.
For now it only uses apt-get and npm, but I intend to add ruby, 
composer/pear, etc
My code is available on pastie: http://pastie.org/5576471

Basically allows to do:
"inst inkscape" -> "sudo apt-get install inkscape"
"inst -n express" -> "npm install express"
"inst -i inkscape" -> "apt-cache show inkscape"
"inst -in express" -> "npm show express"

The file is used both to call the installers and to add an autocomplete 
function to bash (when using the --autocomplete flag)
so calling
"source inst --autocomplete"
adds the autocomplete command

I am having trouble getting the auto-complete to work correctly; I am not 
that good at bash scripting.
Tried modifying the lines found in the bash_complete.d/npm, but it didn't 
work.
An added difficulty (for me) is that:

1 - I need to access only the packages names, since I don't care about 
completing the npm commands.
2 - I need to strip out all flags and arguments, since a command could be 
"inst --info --npm exp" (so I need to remove --info and --npm and add in 
"show")

I am aware that I could do "npm search /^$packageName" and get the results, 
but it's too verbose and needs to connect, whereas the npm auto-complete 
seems to be instantaneous (correct me if I am wrong?)

I would love some help, because I am really not figuring this out.

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