An introduction to bash completion: part 2
Previously we showed how to add basic completion to commands, using facilities which were already provided by the bash completion routines. In this second part we'll demonstrate how to add completely new custom completion to commands.
In part one we looked at adding hostname completion to arbitrary commands by executing:
complete -F _known_hosts xvncviewer
This uses the complete command to tell bash that the function _known_hosts should be used to handle the completion of arguments to the xvncviewer.
If we wish to add custom completion to a command we will instead write our own function, and bind that to the command.
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