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Re: How to autocomplete after 'which'?

From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: How to autocomplete after 'which'?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:46:57 -0600
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On 05/21/2010 09:25 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> When I type something after 'which', something means a command.
> However, bash doesn't do command completion for the argument after
> 'which'. Is there a way to configure bash behave depending on the
> context (in this case, do autocomplete after 'which')?

Consider installing the bash-completion package, which installs a number
of autocompletion helpers that do the right thing, including one for
'which' that does command completion.

Here's how bash-completion does it:
complete -c command type which

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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