ShellCompletion

Bash Completion

The help command takes an optional switch, -c, that will list all the commands (including aliases) in sorted order suitable for use in a bash completion script. When -c is specified, the argument can be a partial command, and help will only list the commands matching. Source this into your bash, for example by putting it in your .bashrc:

    complete -F get_myapp_targets myapp
    function get_myapp_targets() 
    {
        COMPREPLY=(`myapp help -c "${COMP_WORDS[@]:1}"`)
    }

Now, suppose your app takes the commands list, ls, rm, add, and init:

> myapp <TAB>
add init list ls rm
> myapp l<TAB>
list ls

Subcommands like myapp foo [bar|rab] should also work:

> myapp f <TAB>
> myapp foo <TAB><TAB>
bar rab
> myapp foo b<TAB>
> myapp foo bar