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Re: RFE: remove duplicate entries from the result of `compgen -W'
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: RFE: remove duplicate entries from the result of `compgen -W' |
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Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:07:00 -0400 |
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On 9/4/14, 10:33 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
> See following example:
>
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.3.18(1)-release
> $ compgen -W 'hello hello' h
> hello
> hello
> $
>
> It'll be good if only one "hello" is outputted.
`complete' and `compgen' only generate lists of possible completions.
Readline performs duplicate removal when it is deciding what to do
with that list.
Chet
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