Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh

Re:Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh by wpm on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:08AM (#44872317)

I would rather limit myself to things I know are going to be preinstalled on the platforms I use than deal with the masochism that is scripted dependency management. No thanks.

All these comments here "Uhhh just use PythoN!" Yeah? I write scripts that need to run on macOS. No Python there. Yeah I can have my script sit there and pull the command line tools in an automated way and wait the 20 minutes it takes to install or I can pull on my big boy pants and just figure out how to do it in shell. It's turing complete. It works. Whatever.

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Re:Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh by pirates on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @06:45AM (#44874607)

MacOS doesn’t have python? What?

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Re:Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh by wpm on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @09:55AM (#44876233)

macOS has not shipped with Python installed in 6 years. If you take a Mac out of the box, open terminal, and run `python` it prompts you in the GUI to install the Command Line Developer Tools.

Thanks GPLv3

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Re:Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh by znpy on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:00PM (#44906204)

there's Perl though :)

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