I have a service, say xyz. As of now, I can start, stop or restart that service using the command rcxyz start, rcxyz stop and rcxyz restart respectively. It is working fine.
All that I want to do is, if I type rcxyz and press <TAB>, I would like to have the three options (start, stop and restart) to be auto completed.
I referred the other bash_completion related questions in stackoverflow and tried writing a dummy script /etc/bash_completion.d/rcxyz.sh inside which I have written
complete -c rcxyz
I was expecting that when I type rcxyz and press <TAB>, I will get the list of available commands as argument. But it didn't work.
Am I missing something ?
You should write:
complete -W 'start stop restart' rcxyz
See bash's manual:
-W wordlist
The wordlist is split using the characters in the
IFSspecial variable as delimiters, and each resultant word is expanded. The possible completions are the members of the resultant list which match the word being completed.