Line completion with custom commands

Question

my Python program can be launched with a range of different options (or subcommands) like:

$ myProgram doSomething
$ myProgram doSomethingElse
$ myProgram no         


        

Answer 1

Create a file "myprog-completion.bash" and source it in your .bashrc file. Something like this to get you started...

_myProgram()
{
  cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
  case "${cur}" in
    d*) use="doSomething" ;;
    n*) use="nowDoSomethingElse" ;;
  esac
  COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$use" -- $cur ) )
}
complete -o default -o nospace -F _myProgram  myProgram