Re: Piping the output of bash completion; command line navigation

[Josh Rehman]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:43:04AM -0700, Josh Rehman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to grep through the output of bash 
command line completion. If you type "k" and then tab twice, you'll be 
asked to show all 398,499 entries on your path, y or n. Hit y and a big 
list comes up. Seems like it would be nice to search through that list, 
but there is no obvious way to pipe it to anything (like grep).
   

This should be equivalent:

   for d in $( echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/ /g' ); do ls $p/k*; done | less

I think this should be:

for d in $( echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/ /g' ); do ls $d/k*; done | less

But yes, this works pretty well, thanks! (It chokes on bad directories in the path, and prints out full file names, and doesn't include bash built-ins, but otherwise works perfectly :-)


While I'm at it, is there a way to make "CTRL+Left Arrow" move one word 
to the left on the command line? And similiarly for right? That would be 
so great...IIRC DRDOS had that a long time ago. The win2k shell does 
that, too.  I don't even know where to start looking for this one. :-)
   

   man bash
   /^ *Readline Key Bindings
Specifically:  forward-word and backward-word
 

Thanks for that. I'm sure I'll be playing with this quite a lot for a bit.

FWIW this helped me to discover that Bash already supports word 
navigation and deletion: Alt+f, Alt+b, Alt+d does forward, back, and 
delete respectively. Seems to me that CTRL+Left Arrow etc should be part 
of the default bindings. But what do I know?

Thanks again!

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