I ran into the same problem. Here’s the workaround I’m using: Register the completion function with -o default, e.g., complete -o default -F _my_completion. When you want to complete a filename, just set COMPREPLY=() and let Readline take over (that’s what the -o default does). There’s a potential problem with this — you might be … Read more
After trying a custom completion script that I know works (I use it every day) and running into the same issue (when rigging it up similar to yours), I decided to snoop through the bash 4.1 source, and found this interesting block in bash-4.1/builtins/read.def:edit_line(): old_attempted_completion_function = rl_attempted_completion_function; rl_attempted_completion_function = (rl_completion_func_t *)NULL; if (itext) { old_startup_hook … Read more
Updated for 2016: Install package bash-completion.
Found the bug report, please register (if not already registered) and add yourself to the ‘people affected’ list, I just did: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/778627 Workarounds Try enabling direxpand or cdable_vars: shopt -s direxpand # or shopt -s cdable_vars Apparently EscTab might be a workaround: I haven’t found a proper solution to this, but there’s a workaround. The … Read more
Try: read -e -p “Glassfish Path:” GF_DIR -e enables readline: -e If the standard input is coming from a terminal, Readline is used to obtain the line.
Add this in your ~/.bash_profile file or ~/.bashrc file complete -W “\`grep -oE ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+:([^=]|$)’ ?akefile | sed ‘s/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$//’\`” make This searches for a target in your Makefile titled ‘Makefile’ or ‘makefile’ (note the capital ? wildcard in ?akefile) using grep, and pipes it over to the complete command in bash which is used to specify … Read more
Shameless self-promotion: https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete argcomplete provides bash completion for argparse.
Not related to completion, but you could supress that output by putting the call in a subshell: (echo “Hello I’m a background task” &)
[*] (This is an expansion of my comment on Kaleb Pederson’s answer — see that answer for a more general treatment of [@] vs [*].) When bash (or any similar shell) parses a command line, it splits it into a series of “words” (which I will call “shell-words” to avoid confusion later). Generally, shell-words are … Read more
TL;DR one-liner echo ‘autoload -Uz compinit && compinit’ >> ~/.zshrc && . ~/.zshrc this will enable completion in .zshrc and apply the setting to your current terminal session. Explanation: Actually, ZSH does know how to do git completion out of the box, but you need to turn on the completion feature itself (which from the … Read more