Re: [Help-bash] Command completion with * in the middle?

[Grisha Levit]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 11:54 PM David Niklas <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sadly, if there is such a way, I'm still searching for it...
>

I think something like this does the trick?

    f() { COMPREPLY=($(compgen -c -X '!'"$3")); }
    complete -I -F f -o bashdefault

i.e. generate all commands and then remove the ones that don't match the
pattern supplied.

    $ ?grep[TAB]
    egrep  pgrep
    fgrep  zgrep
    ggrep