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Belun
Belun

Reputation: 4169

How to enable bash auto-completion for a function?

I have read this tutorial on bash auto-completion An introduction to bash completion and I am trying to get the same auto-completion that is already done for ssh for one of my functions (that is loaded from .profile); which acts pretty much as an alias.

What I am trying to do is : get the same auto-completion, that is provided by default for ssh (which is the function _known_hosts; do complete -p | grep ssh and you will get complete -F _known_hosts /etc/init.d/ssh), and get it for my own function (which is installed like you woul install an alias, and that in fact does a scp and then an ssh with the original argument)

Upvotes: 11

Views: 4947

Answers (2)

creatldd1 creatldd1
creatldd1 creatldd1

Reputation: 57

Check also this question : How to enable autocomplete subcommnads on function that's call kubectl

It allowed me to make aliases like alias ks='kubectl -n kube-system, alias kc1='kubectl --context c1' working with autocompletion.

It relies on complete-alias : https://github.com/cykerway/complete-alias

Upvotes: 0

Etan Reisner
Etan Reisner

Reputation: 81032

The completion function for ssh here is _ssh.

You can see this with complete -p ssh (it should also have been in your grep output) though it appears to be auto-loaded and so will not show up until after you have used it once in that session.

Anyway, that being said you should just be able to hook _ssh up to your function as well I would think.

complete -F _ssh myfunc

Upvotes: 8

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