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Bash completion for the PEAR Installer

I always wanted to have the PEAR commands get auto completed on my bash. Here is how it works:

complete -W "`pear 2>&1 | awk '{ORS=" "} /[a-zA-Z-]+ / {print $1}'`" -f pear

Simply run the command in your shell and/or add it to e.g. your .bashrc. You will have autocompletion for all PEAR Installer commands and for filenames in paralell.

Usually I'd have expected to get the stuff working using complete's "-C" option, this did not work for me, I got a list of all possible commands when typing <tab><tab>, but neither a correct completion suggestion nor a completion.

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Auto-complete for PEAR commandline

on Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:19:17 +0200 in PHP kitchen

First of all let me reiterate that if you're not taking advantage of the PEAR commandline installer you're missing out on one of the best aspects of PHP.Now, thanks to Tobias, using PEAR at the commandline has become easier than every with auto-complete e
code completion fÃ¼r apt-get

on Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:31:44 +0200 in codeschmie.de

Nachdem ich die code completion fÃ¼r PEAR gesehen hatte, hab ich das gleich mal fÃ¼r das Tool nachgebaut, das ich noch hÃ¤ufiger verwende: apt-get

Also einfach das hier in die ~/.bashrc und apt-get TAB komplettiert
complete -W "`apt-get 2>&1 | awk '{ORS=

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