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| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| Subject | Re: [DOC] Documentation for `complete' compacts[] is incomplete. |
| Date | Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:29:42 -0400 |
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On 8/10/15 12:02 PM, Arthur200000 wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Bash has incomplete documentation for builtins in `complete.def`. The [-abcdefgjksuv] options to specify
> types to complete are not documented. This is making writing completions some kind of black magic.
Have you considered reading the man page or perhaps the info doc? That's
where the actions are documented:
-A action
The action may be one of the following to generate a
list of possible completions:
alias Alias names. May also be specified as -a.
arrayvar
Array variable names.
...and so on.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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