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 c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/