The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 45182e180964c36aa8ac60feb1eafa8194cdda0a
Author: Ville Skyttä <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 14 23:16:47 2009 +0300
Add _split_longopt() helper for improved handling of long options that take
arguments in both "--foo bar" and "--foo=bar" formats.
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 78e8d76..c424bd7 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ bash-completion (1.x)
* Use POSIX compliant arguments to tail in mkisofs completion.
* Protect various completions from unusual user input by not embedding the
input in external command arguments.
+ * Add _split_longopt() helper for improved handling of long options that
+ take arguments in both "--foo bar" and "--foo=bar" formats.
[ Todd Zullinger ]
* Make yum complete on filenames after install, deplist, update and upgrade
diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index b01eba5..07827fb 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -317,6 +317,23 @@ _filedir()
COMPREPLY=( "${comprep...@]}" "${to...@]}" )
}
+# This function splits $cur=--foo=bar into $prev=--foo, $cur=bar, making it
+# easier to support both "--foo bar" and "--foo=bar" style completions.
+# Returns 0 if current option was split, 1 otherwise.
+#
+_split_longopt()
+{
+ if [[ "$cur" == --?*=* ]]; then
+ # Cut also backslash before '=' in case it ended up there
+ # for some reason.
+ prev="${cur%%?(\\)=*}"
+ cur="${cur#*=}"
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ return 1
+}
+
# This function tries to parse the output of $command --help
#
_parse_help() {
--
bash-completion
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