# Completion for ftp(1) with .netrc machines _ftp() { # Bail if the .netrc file is illegible local netrc netrc=$HOME/.netrc [[ -r $netrc ]] || return # Tokenize the file local -a tokens read -a tokens -d '' -r < "$netrc" # Iterate through tokens and collect machine names local -a machines local -i nxm local token for token in "${tokens[@]}" ; do if ((nxm)) ; then machines[${#machines[@]}]=$token nxm=0 elif [[ $token == machine ]] ; then nxm=1 fi done # Generate completion reply local machine for machine in "${machines[@]}" ; do [[ $machine == "$2"* ]] || continue COMPREPLY[${#COMPREPLY[@]}]=$machine done } complete -F _ftp -o bashdefault -o default ftp