I decided to make this into a blog post to in some way contribute back
to the community for all the help I got.
http://muublog.blogspot.com/2009/10/bash-completion-for-playing-movies.html
Enjoy!
/Mathias
> printf "%q\n" works fine here.
It does here too :), I misunderstood the syntax.
> Also, grep "${cur}" could probably be replaced by -path "*/${cur}*".
Indeed it can.
Smaller = better, thanks!
/Mathias
> Interesting! Can I make it part of my pipe (in place of `sed') or need
> I change it to a for or while loop? This is what I have now:
>
> files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname "*.avi" -type f -
> printf "%P\n" | grep "${cur}" | sed "s/\\([][\\(\\) ,\']\\)/\\1/
> g")
Got this to wo
> printf %q "$filename"
>
> will either insert backslashes in front of all the shell metacharacters,
> or $'...' quote the whole thing, or take some other action which renders
> a string "safe". It's basically the opposite of eval.
Interesting! Can I make it part of my pipe (in place of `sed') o
> This has been an interesting topic!
I thought I should share the final version as well:
_mm() {
local cur files
COMPREPLY=()
cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname "*.avi" -type f -
printf "%P\n" | grep "${cur}" | sed "s/\\([][\\(\\) ,\'
> Hm, I can't see any problem here. My version lets you pick any file in
> any subdir by simply typing the name (or part of it) without the
> directory part. After all, 'find -name' matches names, not paths (if you
> want to match full paths, use 'find -path'). I'd also rather use printf
> "%P\n" (
> ...but then I have to shell quote the file name myself to handle
> spaces, brackets of various sorts, comma characters etc. Will hunt for
> such a function and see. There are all sorts of crazy helper functions
> in /etc/bash_completion, of which I barely understand anything.
I did not find any
> Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
> However, you don't need it, as you build the list yourself. Try this:
>
> _mm2() {
> local cur files
> cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
> files=$(find /home/mathias/Videos/movies/ -iname "$cur*.avi" -type
> f -p
> It depends heavily on how the variables IFS and zf are set. From 'man bash':
>
> -W wordlist
> The wordlist is split using the characters in the IFS special
> variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded.
> The possible completions are the members of the resultant
>
Hi fellow bashers!
I am trying to add some completion to a command. The completion should
list all movies I have in a certain folder, regardless if I am in that
folder or not. I have kind of got it to work in several variants but
all have some issue. The current problem I am looking at is very
str
10 matches
Mail list logo
