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Re: How to autocomplete after 'which'?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: Re: How to autocomplete after 'which'?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:37:59 -0500

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 21/05/2010 16:25, Peng Yu a écrit :
>> 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')?
>
> By the way it is better to use "type" instead of "which". "which" is
> often misleading, compare for instance:
>
> type pwd
> which pwd
>
> "which" is misleading in many other cases.

Since pwd is a shell command, when /bin/pwd is actually used? In
shells that don't have built-in pwd?

-- 
Regards,
Peng



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