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menteith
Asked: 2017-12-17 11:05:42 +0800 CST

Filter tab-completion per application by extension

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Say someprogram needs only *.abc files as command line arguments. In terminal, when I do

$ someprogram <tab>

I'd like to only the *.abc files to be listed for tab auto-complete. How do I do that? The shell I use is zsh.

In bash this behaviour is achieved by complete -f -X '!*.abc' someprogram

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    List only *.abc files:

    compctl -g '*.abc' someprogram

    List folders, too:

    compctl -/ -g '*.abc' someprogram
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