Tab completion doesn't work in curl

what the

1/22/23, 10:51 AM

Trying to use tab to autocomplete paths somehow doesn't work in curl

curl --output-dir ~/bi
curl --output-dir ~/bi

It seems to work in other programs, like vim:

vim ~/bi
vim ~/bin/

Any way to make it work with curl?

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Rinzwind

1/22/23, 11:11 AM

curl --out + TAB works for me and makes it curl --output
curl --output ~/ and then TAB works for me.

--output-dir seems invalid to me. Can't find it in the man page for curl:

$ man curl| grep output-dir
$ man curl| grep output

     -o, --output <file>

So it seems a validity check to me: wrong option and after that no auto complete.

Tested with curl 7.68.0.

Looks like a bug to me: someone seems to have forgotten to add output-dir to the completion string for curl.

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what the

1/22/23, 11:15 AM

--output-dir was added in curl 7.73.0: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2020-10/0029.html Maybe you are using an older version?

what the

1/22/23, 11:24 AM

Though it's true that --output completion works for me, so I guess the completion wasn't configured for that new option yet? Any way to change this?

Rinzwind

1/22/23, 11:25 AM

Hmm yes I tested with curl 7.68.0. Does `--output-` tab complete to `--output-dir`? If not it makes it a bug and should be reported as such: Someone seems to have forgotten to add `output-dir` to the completion string for curl. -- edit ah it does :) file a bug report is probably the quickest method :)

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