Get autocompletion when invoking a “read” inside a Bash script

Question

Inside my Bash script, I\'m reading some variables entered by the user with read:

read -p \"Glassfish Path:\" GF_DIR

Now I wan

Answer 1

Try:

read -e -p "Glassfish Path:" GF_DIR

-e enables readline:

 -e 
    If the standard input is coming from a terminal, Readline is used
    to obtain the line.