Re: Enable compgen even when programmable completions are not available?

[Kerin Millar]

On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:19:41 +0700
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:

>     Date:        Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:05:38 +0100
>     From:        Kerin Millar <kfm@plushkava.net>
>     Message-ID:  <20230629230538.cbef14a75694143ccf034a02@plushkava.net>
> 
>   | The thing is that portage also has a legitimate stake in needing
>   | to enumerate all variable names.
> 
> Why isn't "set" good enough for that?
> 
>       (set -o posix; set) | sed 's/=.*$//' | whatever_processes_them

This can be trivially foiled.

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Kerin Millar