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#2 Aliases Posted by darren (66.194.xx.xx) on Wed 4 Jan 2006 at 19:49 Terrific article. Perhaps there's a clean (or easy) way to handle aliases? Debian-related example in my .bashrc: alias apt-i='apt-get install' Bash completion fails to complete "apt-i" with a list of available pkgs. And, since there's no "_available_pkgs" built-in function, it appears a one-line "complete -F" won't work here. That leaves me with adding my own custom completion and using the COMREPLY function listed in /etc/bash_completion. Easy enough. But, is there an even easier way? Should I create my alias a different way? Or setup a custom completion that uses the built-in as much as possible?

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