On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
with bash completion returns a message like
Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n)
how can i turn this off
I don't know what you mean by "turning this off".
The helper doing this is the readline library. Your shell picks
configuration for readline from the files /etc/inputrc and
~/.inputrc.
There is one variable which limits the maximum number of possible
completions shown (default is 100). The variable is called
completion-query-items
So, if I understood you correctly, you might experiment with putting
set completion-query-items 1000
in your file ~/.inputrc. Or you set it to a negative number, then
you're never asked (do at your own risk :-)
See bash's man page, section READLINE, and the readline man page.
But perhaps I didn't understand you correctly.
Cheers
-- t
that's is exactly what i was attempting to say
if i am reading the man page correctly
there is not a very fine control
i wrote a script that runs in bash
i would like to disable prompting for only this script
$if my_script
set completion-query-items -1
$endif
but this does not work
