Fedora :: Do Bash Completion Of Package Names In Yum?
Jul 12, 2011Can fedora do bash completion of package names in yum?
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General :: Make Zsh Completion Behave Like Bash Completion?
Jun 2, 2010I switched to zsh, but I dislike the completion. If I have 20 files, each with a shared prefix, on pressing tab, zsh will fully complete the first file, then continue going through the list with each press of tab. If I want one near the end, I would have to press tab many times.
In bash, this was simple - press tab and I would get the prefix. If I continued typing (and pressing tab), bash would complete as far as it could be certain of. I find this behavior to be much more intuitive but prefer the other features of zsh to bash.
Is there a way to get this style of completion? Google suggested setopt bash_autolist, but this had no effect for me (and no error message was printed upon starting my shell).
Fedora :: SSH Knowhost Bash Completion In F12?
Dec 10, 2009New Fedora 12 install - I installed the bash_completion package, but it's not filling in knowhosts for ssh. It worked fine in Fedora 11. Is there something I've done wrong, or is this missing in F12?
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Dec 15, 2010I wondered if theres a way to do rotational style completion in bash similar to the behavoir on cmd.exe, I've found it speeds me up in regard to entering commands
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Apr 29, 2010Just installed 10.04 64bit and in gnome-terminal i have no bash completion when sudo is used.For example:apt- gives apt-getbut sudo apt- does nothing, i get no suggestions from the terminal.
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Mar 28, 2011I have disabled root ssh logins for security. When I am logged in as a normal user over SSH and do a su into root the tab-completion stops working with apt. It still works when doing normal file-browsing, on the original user1, and it has worked previously when logged directly into root. How do I make it autocomplete again? I am using Debian Stable on a headless homeserver.
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Jul 17, 2010Out of the box, Bash in 10.04 is configured such that it won't expand/complete parameters when there's a single match for a parameter with a leading wildcard. For example, if I have the following files in a directory:
Code:
ABC.bin
DEF.bin
GHI.bin
...and I type cp *E*, I expect to be able to press TAB and have Bash expand *E* to DEF.bin, since that's the only file in the directory with a capital E in its name.
(Note: if I actually submit the command with the wildcards in place, the correct file will be used then, but I don't get to see it beforehand.) I imagine there's something in /etc/bash_completion that's preventing this from working properly. Does anyone know what it is?
Ubuntu :: Turn On Bash Smart Completion?
Aug 26, 2010[URL]
Code:
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
#fi
What versions of Ubuntu have this commented out? Every version I have used always has this uncommented.
General :: Handling Wordbreaks In Bash Completion?
Feb 16, 2010I am writing completion function for one PHP framework called symfony. It has command line interface with syntax:
Code:
symfony [options] [namespace:]action
I want to make action be autocompletable. The function is simplest so far:
Code:
function _symfony_commands()
{
[ -r "cache/completion/.sf" ] && cat cache/completion/.sf
}
[code]....
But, if there is : symbol which separate namespace from action problems coming:
symfony doct[TAB]
will be completed to
symfony doctrine:
But nothing happens if you want complete after : symbol. I've found out that for readline there is three words because it splits line with $COMP_WORDBREAKS
Code:
$ echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS
"'><=;|&(:
I played with $COMP_WORDS array and tried every thought I had to make it work, but failed.
What I should do to escape colon and make readline consider it as one word? Or there is way perhaps to workaround it?
Software :: Bash Hostname Completion Not Working?
Nov 25, 2009According to the Bash man pages, Quote: HOSTFILE Contains the name of a file in the same format as /etc/hosts that should be read when the shell needs to complete a hostname. The list of possible hostname completions may be changed while the shell is running; the next time hostname completion is attempted after the value is changed, bash adds the contents of the new file to the existing list. If HOSTFILE is set, but has no value, bash attempts to read /etc/hosts to obtain the list of possible hostname completions. When HOSTFILE is unset, the hostname list is cleared.
Here's the line in my .bashrc where HOSTFILE is set:
Code:
export HOSTFILE="~/.hosts"
I opened a new bash session, created ~/.hosts, filled it with the names of servers that I wanted to expand using tab completion. then typed
Code:
ssh p<tab><tab>
expecting to get a lists of all of the hosts in ~/.hosts starting with 'p'. Bash simply beeped at me twice.
I tried
Code:
$ shopt hostcomplete
hostcomplete on
Code:
ssh bchittenden@p<tab><tab>
same results.
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General :: Bash - Get Colored Output When Using Tab Completion In A Terminal?
Feb 27, 2011Is there a way to get colored output when using tab completion in a terminal? My colors are fine everywhere else so I know that I've enabled a color terminal successfully. Using bash in Ubuntu (10.10).
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Nov 15, 2010tab-completion indexes system folders (like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)! so say i'm in a folder that has two files, 'text' and 'myprog', i type in an 'm' then tab, and i get hundreds of results including 'mysql', 'mysqlconfig', and others as im sure you can imagine. is there a way to set it to default or something else that will only make it index the current folder?
i tried changing my PATH variable so i could execute programs in the current directory without './' - what i added to PATH was ':.' at the end (apparently this is not the way to do it... :S). i tried resetting PATH various times ('unset PATH', 'PATH=$whatever...') but this has not fixed the problem. using 'unset PATH', of course, removes everything from PATH, which meant that functions (like 'ls') in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin can't be found. obviously i want those to be found, but i would rather not tab through them!
Slackware :: Bash-completion-1.3-noarch-1 Causes Xorg Failure?
Feb 16, 2011/etc/bash_completion.d/slapt has a syntax error that causes x to fail to load. I had to move the file to be able to run x. Here is the offending file:
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Ubuntu :: Bash-completion + Mount = Failure To Complete Directories?
May 27, 2011I've spent some time searching for answers to this and I haven't found much at all.Please feel free to post pointers to other threads that discuss this particular problem, if you find any.The problem is that in bash I want to mount an iso file to inspect the contents with the command:Code:sudo mount myCD.iso CDMount -o loopThe command works fine, but pressing tab to complete either the iso filename or the CDMount directory does not work. The completion suggestions I get are existing mountpoints which The completion suggestions should include the files and directories in the current directory. This worked with Ubuntu 10.04 and not with 11.04.
Programming :: Bash Checking For File Write Completion Before Acting?
Jan 20, 2011I have a bash script that checks for contents in a folder every 15 seconds and then acts on it's contents. This works great for the average size file however on very large files it starts acting on the file before it's completely written. Is there a facility in bash shell to get a file complete signal or such? here is trigger to launch a larger script.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
$HOME/bin/hpgl.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &
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General :: Concatenate Variable Names In Bash?
Apr 7, 2011In my script, and I would like to concatenate 2 variables names, to give me the true variable.I've 3 variables X1, X2 and X3, and I invoked them inside a for loop.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
X1=HELLO
[code]....
Programming :: Bash File Names With Spaces?
Jul 24, 2010I have a laptop that I am in through SSH. The laptop does not have an Xwindow system so I am using the program fbi to open an image on my laptop screen from my SSH connection:
fbi -T 8 picture.jpg #this opens the image on the laptops tty8 terminal
I've found that making a for loop does not work with files that contain a space in the name. Something to due with a bug that they call a "feature" that stops the first variable at the first whitespace.
Using a "while" loop is not exactly what i require either seeing as I want to be able to view each image in the directory on screen and tag it accordingly, before it jumps off to the next image, and I'm not sure how to add a pause to a while loop.
How do I make a Bash script and loop Variables handle files like "files that contain spaces.jpg"
Programming :: Getting Directory Names From A Given Path In Bash?
Apr 11, 2009I am programming in bash and really stuck finding directory names. I have a script to find all the .php files on my / partition which will return the whole path. Is there a way to print directory hierarchy with all those values leaving out the forward slashes.
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Sep 7, 2011I'd like to instruct bash to use a special method to perform completion on certain directory names. For example, bash would call a program of mine to perform completion if a path starts with "$$", and perform completion normally otherwise. Is this at all possible? How would you implement it? The goal is to allow autojump to complete paths for all commands when the user starts them with a certain prefix. So for example when copying a file from a far directory, you could type: cp $$patern + <Tab>
and autojump would complete cp /home/user/CompliCatedDireCTOry/long/path/bla/bla and you would just have to add where you want to put the file. Of course I can use ott's comment to add it to a few specific commands
Ubuntu :: Bash - Check If All The File Names Are Correct?
Sep 23, 2010I have bash script for converting files. I have a problem. If file name is "corrupted" then mv command for that file will not work. For example file with "-" in front of the name.
Is there a way to check if in some folder (subfolder) all the files have correct file names or they don't?
If they are all correct -> OK proceed with execution of the script!
If they are not all correct -> NOT OK stop with execution of the script!
Programming :: Bash - Dynamiquely Evaluating Variable Names
May 23, 2011I'll try to be clear but I think I'm in a mess with my code right now, so it may appear here too
Here is a function. The part I want you to see is the 'eval' sentence.
This works.
It evaluates ${SourceTxt} (which is $1), takes away a part of it and uses it as an array to put data in.
That's alright.
Code:
Now, later, I NEED to count the number of elements in the array(s).
So, I try to do something like....
Which gives me the evaluated name ('#txtFields_email_customers[@]' e.g)
Or
Which gives me nothing....
I was wondering if I was reaching the limits of bash in this kind of capabilities, or if there is a.... bash-like solution. I.e. a good solution
Programming :: Bash File Names Different Than Openbox Trash
Feb 14, 2011Im writing my first bash script. Its function is to move files to the trash can and write a log file in the same format that the system does to allow for file restoration. The problem is that in bash, everything works fine, but in the OpenBox window session, the files are named after the source directory, not the original name. Heres the script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# trash - Script to move file or folder to the trash can and create a log file
##### Functions #####
err_output () # Writes error message {
echo "$0: cannot stat `$1': No such file or directory"
echo "USAGE: $0 SOURCE DEST"
exit 1 } >&2
write_log_numbered ()
# Writes log entry for numbered files {
echo "[Trash Info]" > $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.$max.trashinfo
echo "Path="$PWD >> $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.$max.trashinfo
echo "DeletionDate="`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"` >> $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.$max.trashinfo
}
write_log_unique () # Writes log entry for unique files {
echo "[Trash Info]" > $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.trashinfo
echo "Path="$PWD >> $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.trashinfo
echo "DeletionDate="`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"` >> $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/${FILE}.trashinfo
} make_paths () # Makes necessary folders {
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Trash
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Trash/files
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Trash/info
}
##### Main #####
make_paths
SOURCE="$1"
DEST=$(dirname ~/.local/share/Trash/files/filename)
[ -e "$SOURCE" ] || err_output "$SOURCE"
[ -d "$DEST" ] || err_output "$DEST"
FILE="$(basename "$SOURCE")"
if [ -e "${DEST}/${FILE}" ]; then
max=0 DIR="$(pwd)" cd "$DEST"
shopt -s nullglob for backup in "${FILE}."; do
nr=${backup#${FILE}.}
if [[ "$nr" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
if (( nr>max )); then
max="$nr" fi
fi
done
cd "$DIR"
max=$(( max + 1 ))
write_log_numbered
mv -- "$SOURCE" "${DEST}/${FILE}.$max"
else
write_log_unique
mv -- "$SOURCE" "$DEST/${FILE}"
fi
So I run the script with the test file "Junk". In bash, it moves over and its named correctly.
Code:
~/.local/share/Trash/files$ ls
file file.1 Files Files.1 Junk
The log file is also named correctly
Code:
~/.local/share/Trash/info$ ls
file.1.trashinfo Files.1.trashinfo Files.trashinfo file.trashinfo Junk.trashinfo
But, when I go to view the trash can in the file manager in Openbox, the file is called "Testing" which is the name of the source directory. However, if I go to the trashcan via its full path (going to .local/, then share/) all the files are named correctly. Whats going on here? Is there some way to get the trash can to read the correct file name?
Programming :: Handle Files With Spaces In Their Names In Bash?
Apr 1, 2011*I'm using Ubuntu 10.10
My issue is I can't handle the files with spaces in their name, I've donde the below script to print each file found inside folder and subbfolders with "find".
I would like to "ls" to each file found with its complete path and with its basename too.
Code:
files=$(find . -type f)
for each in "$files"
do
ls -l "$each" # 1rst option I've tried to list with full path
ls -l "$(/bin/echo "$each")" # 2nd option I've tried to list with full path
ls -l "$(/bin/echo $(basename "$each"))" # 1nd option I've tried to list with it basename
[Code].....
How can I list "ls -l" in both cases (with full path and with basename) when there are files with spaces in their name?
General :: File Names And Tilde--not For Home Directory--in Bash?
Jun 6, 2011I understand the tilde (~) at the end of a file displayed in bash is a backup file in the Linux file system. Is there a way to keep these hidden when listing the contents of a directory?
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Oct 10, 2010Any script to categorize folders with similar name into one directory. For example: There are 4 directories named LinuxFedora, LinuxUbuntu, WindowsXP and Windows7. The script should be able to create two folder named Linux and Windows wheree respective directories are moved.
Next example: If there are many folder as below:
DevLys 010
DevLys 010
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Software :: Customizing Bash Autocomplete (Files And Folder Names)
Jan 6, 2009Is there a way to customize bash autocomplete such that it avoids searching for commands? I want it to auto complete file and folder names only!
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Aug 12, 2011nested loop in ''Bash-Scripting in Linux'' ?What's wrong with my code:
for x in `seq 0.75 0.01 0.95`
do
for y in `seq 0.20 0.01 0.40`
[code]....
Red Hat / Fedora :: Format And Setup An External HD From Step 1 To Completion?
Sep 21, 2010I am a total and complete noob with Red Hat. I was handed down this system at work and told to setup new 2TB HD's to work with our backup system. I have been stumbling around trying to figure it out but I'm pretty sure I'm just making a mess of things. Could someone give me or show me how to format and setup an external HD from step 1 to completion?
I actually do have one of the new HD's kinda working but it doesn't auto-mount when I plug it in. I've tried so many different things I'm not sure what I've done anymore. I'd really just like to start from "remove the HD from the packaging" and go from there.
General :: Printing From Bash Shell / Concatenate Files Into One File With File Names Included?
May 11, 2011I am supposed to take some small files, and print them to a specific printer, such that the small files are concatenated into one file. The file name has to be included in the file that gets printed.
Should I be looking to concatenate the files into one file with the file names included, and then print them?
something like: -printfunction -printername < file*
General :: Bash Function/alias For Package Managers?
Jul 6, 2010I have packer installed for AUR packages, but I want to be able to use the pacman command for both. I think I will need a function for this -- what I mean is that whenever I use pacman, it will try using packer and if that fails (invalid option) it will use pacman-color. It could also decide which program to use based on the arguments. I can't just use packer (alias pacman='sudo packer') because packer doesn't have some options like -R to remove packages. I want to always use it to install and upgrade packages however, because It can install from the default repositories as well as AUR.
Does someone know how to accomplish this, or could point me in the right direction? I'm new to bash scripting. error (e.g. pacman -V prints packer: Option '-V' is not valid.).