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I am trying to modify bash complete properties.
I can exclude a file extension for a command thusly:
complete -f -X '*hi' vim
I want to specify two file names for exclusion. How do I do this?
Note: the following command did not work.
complete -f -X '(*hi|*o)' vim
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Change File Extensions From the Terminal And if you want to change the extension (or the name), you'd use the mv command. mv stands for "move" and is the standard command on Linux for moving and renaming files.
Using Bash, there's also ${file%. *} to get the filename without the extension and ${file##*.} to get the extension alone. That is, file="thisfile.
One way to do this is to turn on Extended Globs. Run this at the command line, or add it to your .bashrc to make it permanent:
shopt -s extglob
Now, your complete command can look like this:
complete -f -X '*.@(hi|o)' vim
Quoting from Extended Globs in patterns:
@(list): Matches one of the given patterns.
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