In order to use bash completion, you can have a ~/.bash_completion
like this:
if [ -d "$HOME/.bash_completion.d" ]; then
for file in "$HOME/.bash_completion.d/"*
do
source "$file" >/dev/null 2>&1
done
fi
and then copy our contrib/bash_completion/b2
to your ~/.bash_completion.d/
.
The important trick is that b2
tool must be in PATH before bash_completions are loaded for the last time (unless you delete the first line of our completion script).
If you keep the b2
tool in ~/bin
, you can make sure the loading order is proper by making sure ~/bin
is added to the PATH before loading bash_completion. To do that, add the following snippet to your ~/.bashrc
:
if [ -d ~/bin ]; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if ! shopt -oq posix; then
if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion
elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
fi