> Another issue is that some filenames have '-' in them, but the module
> names have '_' in them.
This is a problem because the modules filenames are a mess. Some
filenames have an underscore '_' too.
> Does the current solution filter out
> duplicates due to the modulename and filename not being the same
> (i.e. '-' vs. '_')?
If you want to get
(all available mods) minus (already loaded mods)
a solution is to change hyphen '-' to underscore '_' in the filenames,
but not the opposite. This is because the output of "lsmod" or
"/proc/modules" is always with underscore.
I try this modification (and renaming) of you functions
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function _sort_all_mods {
find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name \*.ko|sed
's|.*/||g;s|[.]ko$||'|sort -u|tr - _
}
function _loaded_mods_regexp {
local a
a=$(awk '{print $1}' /proc/modules|sort -u|sed 's/^/^/;s/$/$/'|tr "\n" '|')
echo ${a%|}
}
function _newmods {
declare cur prev words cword
_get_comp_words_by_ref cur
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$(_sort_all_mods|grep -E -v
"$(_loaded_mods_regexp)")" -- "$cur" ) )
}
complete -F _newmods modprobe
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Using the functions above I get the right filtering
$ _sort_all_mods | wc -l
2542
$ _loaded_mods_regexp | tr '|' "\n" | wc -l
79
$ _sort_all_mods | grep -E -v "$(_loaded_mods_regexp)" | wc -l
2463
$ echo 2542 - 79 | bc
2463
> So sounds like using a modified function based on the function
> I used and your optimizations would "ignore" the problem of the
> extra links?
Your solution works because uses command "find", which ignore links
by default. I mean, "find" is equivalent to "find -P".
Regards,
FA
