# Autocompletion for man(1) _man() { # Don't even bother if we don't have manpath(1) hash manpath 2>/dev/null || return # Snarf the word local word word=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} # Don't bother if the word has slashes in it, the user is probably trying # to complete an actual path case $word in */*) return 1 ;; esac # If this is the second word, and the previous word started with a number, # we'll assume that's the section to search local section subdir if ((COMP_CWORD > 1)) ; then case ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]} in [0-9]*) section=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]} subdir=man${section%%[^0-9]*} ;; esac fi # Read completion results from a subshell and add them to the COMPREPLY # array individually local page while IFS= read -rd '' page ; do [[ -n $page ]] || continue COMPREPLY[${#COMPREPLY[@]}]=$page done < <( # Do not return dotfiles, give us extended globbing, and expand empty # globs to just nothing shopt -u dotglob shopt -s extglob nullglob # Make globbing case-insensitive if appropriate while read -r _ setting ; do case $setting in ('completion-ignore-case on') shopt -s nocaseglob break ;; esac done < <(bind -v) # Break manpath(1) output into an array of paths declare -a manpaths IFS=: read -a manpaths -r < <(manpath 2>/dev/null) # Iterate through the manual page paths and add every manual page we find declare -a pages for manpath in "${manpaths[@]}" ; do [[ -n $manpath ]] || continue if [[ -n $section ]] ; then for page in \ "$manpath"/"$subdir"/"$word"*."$section"?(.[glx]z|.bz2|.lzma|.Z) do pages[${#pages[@]}]=$page done else for page in "$manpath"/man[0-9]*/"$word"*.* ; do pages[${#pages[@]}]=$page done fi done # Strip paths, .gz suffixes, and finally .
suffixes pages=("${pages[@]##*/}") pages=("${pages[@]%.@([glx]z|bz2|lzma|Z)}") pages=("${pages[@]%.[0-9]*}") # Print quoted entries, null-delimited printf '%q\0' "${pages[@]}" ) } complete -F _man -o bashdefault -o default man