Mathias Dahl schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
However, you don't need it, as you build the list yourself. Try this:
_mm2() {
local cur files
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname $cur*.avi
Hm, I can't see any problem here. My version lets you pick any file in
any subdir by simply typing the name (or part of it) without the
directory part. After all, 'find -name' matches names, not paths (if you
want to match full paths, use 'find -path'). I'd also rather use printf
%P\n
This has been an interesting topic!
I thought I should share the final version as well:
_mm() {
local cur files
COMPREPLY=()
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname *.avi -type f -
printf %P\n | grep ${cur} | sed s/\\([][\\(\\)
printf %q $filename
will either insert backslashes in front of all the shell metacharacters,
or $'...' quote the whole thing, or take some other action which renders
a string safe. It's basically the opposite of eval.
Interesting! Can I make it part of my pipe (in place of `sed') or need
I
Interesting! Can I make it part of my pipe (in place of `sed') or need
I change it to a for or while loop? This is what I have now:
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname *.avi -type f -
printf %P\n | grep ${cur} | sed s/\\([][\\(\\) ,\']\\)/\\1/
g)
Got this to work:
Mathias Dahl mathias.d...@gmail.com writes:
Got this to work:
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname *.avi -type f -
printf %P\n | grep ${cur} | while read file; do
printf %q $file
echo
done)
With the %q option to printf it no longer accepts a \n so
Bernd Eggink wrote:
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
strange behavior do you see?
For example, this:
function _aha
{
local list=a b:c d:e f
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Bernd Eggink wrote:
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
strange behavior do you see?
For example, this:
function _aha
{
local list=a
Mathias Dahl schrieb:
It depends heavily on how the variables IFS and zf are set. From 'man bash':
-W wordlist
The wordlist is split using the characters in the IFS special
variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded.
The possible completions are the members of
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
strange behavior do you see?
For example, this:
function _aha
{
local list=a b:c d:e f
COMPREPLY=($(IFS=:
Bernd Eggink wrote:
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
strange behavior do you see?
For example, this:
function _aha
{
local list=a b:c d:e f
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Bernd Eggink wrote:
Chet Ramey schrieb:
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
strange behavior do you see?
For example, this:
function _aha
{
Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
However, you don't need it, as you build the list yourself. Try this:
_mm2() {
local cur files
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname $cur*.avi -type
f -printf
...but then I have to shell quote the file name myself to handle
spaces, brackets of various sorts, comma characters etc. Will hunt for
such a function and see. There are all sorts of crazy helper functions
in /etc/bash_completion, of which I barely understand anything.
I did not find any
Mathias Dahl schrieb:
Hi fellow bashers!
I am trying to add some completion to a command. The completion should
list all movies I have in a certain folder, regardless if I am in that
folder or not. I have kind of got it to work in several variants but
all have some issue. The current problem I
It depends heavily on how the variables IFS and zf are set. From 'man bash':
-W wordlist
The wordlist is split using the characters in the IFS special
variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded.
The possible completions are the members of the resultant
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