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Created December 18, 2012 06:41
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bash completion example for user command
# bash_completion
_instance()
{
local cur prev opts
COMPREPLY=()
cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
opts="CANDIDATE1 CANDIDATE2 CANDIDATE3 CANDIDATE4 ..."
if [[ ${cur} == * ]] ; then
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
return 0
fi
}
complete -F _instance SHELL_COMMAND
//replace CANDIDATE & SHELL_COMMAND
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