Re: interesting question about shells

[Wayne Cuddy]

Bash and Zsh will already handle your first example without any
tinkering.

As Christian stated the completion systems are quite mature, I tend to
prefer zsh myself.

A good book that I recommend to get started is From Bash to Zsh. I
found it easier to start with rather the supplied reference
documentation.

Hope that helps,
Wayne

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 04:56:02PM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
 Hi,
 
 an interesting question has just come to my head:
 do you know of any shell that could complete from the terminal output of 
 any of the previous command?
 
 like for example:
 i want it to complete from a result of ls, so I give the ls command, 
 look at its output, then for example
 i type 'cat  some prefixTAB' and it completes from the result of ls.
 now if i want for example  ssh to any host, i give command cat 
 .ssh/config, and then ssh some prefixTAB.
 is that at all possible?
 
 --
 With best regards,
  Gregory Edigarov

Re: interesting question about shells

[Wayne Cuddy]

No really.. a lot of the basics are applicable to ksh (*sh) but *csh
style shells aren't covered.

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 04:54:16PM -0500, Jonathon Sisson wrote:
 On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:48:43PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
  A good book that I recommend to get started is From Bash to Zsh. I
  found it easier to start with rather the supplied reference
  documentation.
  
 Does From Bash to Zsh cover ksh, csh, tcsh, etc...?
 
 It sounds like a great book idea, but it looks to me like the book
 literally just covers Bash and Zsh?  Is that the case?