Subject: Re: [QUERY] How do you sort completions?

From: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:23:03 +0200

Hi,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:11:00AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> AFAIK bash needs the completions sorted, so we added some | sort |
> uniq.

Actually, it seems to sort and remove duplicates automatically:

$ _foo () { COMPREPLY=("bar" "foo" "bar" "baz") ; }
$ complete -F _foo foo
$ foo <TAB>
bar  baz  foo  

So that | sort | uniq might not be necessary after all, and by
removing them we could spare two fork()+exec()s.

I'm not sure all supported Bash versions behave this way, though.

Best,
Gábor