November 2009
2 posts
bash programmable completion | freshmeat.net →
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on...
“Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.”
– Robustness principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This clause has been generalized into the robustness principle, also known as Postel’s Law.