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diff --git a/examples/complete/complete.gnu-longopt b/examples/complete/complete.gnu-longopt deleted file mode 100644 index c55b436..0000000 --- a/examples/complete/complete.gnu-longopt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -# -# Originally from: -# -#Message-ID: <3B13EC65.179451AE@wanadoo.fr> -#Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:37:25 +0200 -#From: Manu Rouat <emmanuel.rouat@wanadoo.fr> -#Subject: [bash] Universal command options completion? -# -# -#In the recent versions of bash (after 2.04) programmable -#completion is available. A useful completion function -#is , for a particular command, to enumerate all flags -#that can be used in the command. Now, most GNU unix -#commands have so-called 'long options' for example: -# -#ls --color=always --no-group --size -# -#and these are all listed when you issue a '--help' flag. -#So the idea is to use that, then parse the output of the -#'--help' and reinject this to compgen. The basis of the -#following 'universal' completion funtion was the _configure_func' -#written by Ian McDonnald (or is it Chet Ramey ?) -#A dedicated function will always be better, but this is quite -#convenient. I chose to use 'long options' because they are -#easy to parse and explicit too (it's the point I guess...) -#Lots of room for improvement ! - -_longopt_func () -{ - case "$2" in - -*) ;; - *) return ;; - esac - - case "$1" in - \~*) eval cmd=$1 ;; - *) cmd="$1" ;; - esac - COMPREPLY=( $("$cmd" --help | sed -e '/--/!d' -e 's/.*--\([^ ]*\).*/--\1/'| \ -grep ^"$2" |sort -u) ) -} - -complete -o default -F _longopt_func ldd wget bash id info # some examples that work |