Creating a bash completion script in a declarative way.

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• Declarative programming. You only need to know the most basic bash syntax.
• Only bash and sed are needed on at compile time. Only bash is needed on at runtime. No other dependencies.
• Support for command format looks like <cmd> [options] [arguments].
• Support for sub-commands, which looks like <cmd> [cmd-options] <subcmd> [subcmd-options] [arguments].
• Support for -o, --option, --option <value>, --option=, +o, +option format.
• Support for completing file or directory paths.
• Support for completing word lists.
• Support for custom completion functions.
• Friendly config typo checking and suggestions.

• For building script.
  • Bash v4.3+
  • cat, sed (GNU or BSD compatible)
• For runtime. Bash v4.0+

Read tags for versions. The versions follow the rules of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

You can install it by curl or git.

VERSION=v0.1.0

# To download bash-completor
curl -LO "https://github.com/adoyle-h/bash-completor/releases/download/$VERSION/bash-completor{,.md5}"

# Check files integrity
md5sum -c ./*.md5

# Make it executable
chmod +x ./bash-completor

# Create symbol link or copy it to somewhere in your local $PATH
sudo ln -s "$PWD/bash-completor" /usr/local/bin/bash-completor

There is a completion script of bash-completor. You can install it if you need.

# To download the completion script of bash-completor
curl -LO "https://github.com/adoyle-h/bash-completor/releases/download/$VERSION/bash-completor.completion.bash{,.md5}"

# Check files integrity
md5sum -c ./*.md5

# Load the completion script of bash-completor in current shell
. $PWD/bash-completor.completion.bash

# Autoload it on startup
echo ". $PWD/bash-completor.completion.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

VERSION=v0.1.0

# Clone this repo
git clone --depth 1 --branch "$VERSION" https://github.com/adoyle-h/bash-completor.git

# To build bash-completor
make build

# Create symbol link or copy it to somewhere in your local $PATH
sudo ln -s "$PWD/dist/bash-completor" /usr/local/bin/bash-completor

# Load the completion script of bash-completor in current shell
. $PWD/dist/bash-completor.completion.bash

# Autoload the completion script of bash-completor if you need.
echo ". $PWD/dist/bash-completor.completion.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

Enter bash-completor for help.

1. Write a config file completor.bash.
2. Run bash-completor -c ./completor.bash to generate completion script.

• ./completor.bash It's a simple example. Run make build to build the completion script of bash-completor.
• zig.completor.bash
• nvim-shell-completions/nvim.completor.bash
• Other examples in ./example/

The generated completion script follows below code style. No worry about naming conflict. And it's easy to debug at runtime.

• The main command completion function must be _${cmd}_completions
• All subcmd completion functions must be named with prefix _${cmd}_completions_${subcmd}.
• All other variables and functions must be named with prefix _${cmd}_comp_.
• The variable of main command options must be _${cmd}_comp_cmd_opts.
• The variable of subcmd options must be named with prefix _${cmd}_comp_subcmd_opts_${subcmd}.
• All reply functions must be named with prefix _${cmd}_comp_reply_.
• All customized reply functions must be named with prefix _${cmd}_comp_reply_custom_.

Before opening new Issue/Discussion/PR and posting any comments, please read Contributing Guidelines.

Run make test in shell.

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