Where to put bash completion scripts

Question

I have implemented some perl scripts and in some cases i have to pass some command line args into my program.Usability perspective i have decided to add some bash completion script into my project.But now i am stuck on where to put my script to work it as expected.Please let me know where can i put my bash completion script

Custom Perl Scripts location

C:\scripts\tool\bin\ktools.pl

also add bin path to the system variable.

I have put my auto complete scripts in

C:\scripts\tool\bin\etc\bash_completion.d\ktools\foo

Bash Completion Script

_foo() 
{
    local cur prev opts
    COMPREPLY=()
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
    opts="--help --verbose --version"

    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]] ; then
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
        return 0
    fi
}
complete -F _foo ktools

Command should be auto suggested when user type ktools -- + press tab in command line or git bash.

https://metacpan.org/release/MooseX-App-Plugin-ZshCompletion — simbabque, Jul 15 '17 at 07:51
So you are using Windows? Standard locations may differ in various platforms. — jarno, May 22 '19 at 07:26

math2001 · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-15T07:48:41.850

5

I'm pretty sure you need to source it into your .bashrc (basically include it).

Open ~/.bashrc and write (you might need to create it if it doesn't exists)

source your_bash_file

Then, in your terminal, "refresh" by doing

source ~/.bashrc

and it should work.

edited Jul 15 '17 at 07:48

answered Jul 15 '17 at 07:13

math2001

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where can i find `.bashrc` file i searched it in my `userhome` but there is any – gihan-maduranga Jul 15 '17 at 07:22
in case if you cant create `.bashrc` in windows https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6883760/git-for-windows-bashrc-or-equivalent-config-files-for-git-bash-shell – gihan-maduranga Jul 15 '17 at 07:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 01 '19 at 03:23

The above answer is very inconvenient especially if you have multiple completion scripts and are having other people install and use your program.

The more convenient way to d it would be to create a folder containing all your completion scripts in /etc or such, and then in the .bashrc source everything in that directory.

Where to put bash completion scripts

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