(posted earlier to gnu.bash, but no relpies yet)

I want to define bash completion for command xyz as
follows: [when I press tab], argument for command xyz
is completed from filenames in [fixed] directory /home/xyz,
(not from current directory), and preferrabley without
the /home/xyz prefix. How do I do it ?

Thanks
Yakov

On 2006-11-07, Yakov wrote:
> (posted earlier to gnu.bash, but no relpies yet)
>
> I want to define bash completion for command xyz as
> follows: [when I press tab], argument for command xyz
> is completed from filenames in [fixed] directory /home/xyz,
> (not from current directory), and preferrabley without
> the /home/xyz prefix. How do I do it ?

_xyz() {
COMPREPLY=( `
cd /home/xyz || return 3
printf "%s\n" ${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}*`
)
COMPREPLY=( "${COMPREPLY[@]%-sh}" )
}
complete -F _xyz xyz


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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-11-07, Yakov wrote:
> > (posted earlier to gnu.bash, but no relpies yet)
> >
> > I want to define bash completion for command xyz as
> > follows: [when I press tab], argument for command xyz
> > is completed from filenames in [fixed] directory /home/xyz,
> > (not from current directory), and preferrabley without
> > the /home/xyz prefix. How do I do it ?
>
> _xyz() {
> COMPREPLY=( `
> cd /home/xyz || return 3
> printf "%s\n" ${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}*`
> )
> COMPREPLY=( "${COMPREPLY[@]%-sh}" )
> }
> complete -F _xyz xyz

Thanks, this works great.
Yakov