How Bash Completion Works

Re:How Bash Completion Works by techntoke on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:37PM (#21173503)

Is there anything like completion for ash within Alpine containers, or do you have to install Bash?

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Re:How Bash Completion Works by shakna on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:07AM (#21178208)

I don't believe Almquist ever incorporated tab completion. Korn did, so a number of more limited shells may support it, but probably not ash.

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Re:How Bash Completion Works by unixhero on Sunday October 06, 2019 @02:17PM (#21173772)

To be fair. Bash does not have a large footprint.

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Re:How Bash Completion Works by roryrjb on Sunday October 06, 2019 @04:38PM (#21174956)

As an alternative, as mentioned already in response to another comment is oksh (https://github.com/ibara/oksh), a portable version of OpenBSD's pdksh. It's in the same Bourne shell lineage as bash but is lighter and the completion is simpler: you have to customise it if you want it to work for you, but it's very easy and quick to do.

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