# Completion for ftp with .netrc machines _ftp() { # Bail if the .netrc file is illegible local netrc netrc=$HOME/.netrc [[ -r $netrc ]] || return 1 # Tokenize the file local -a tokens read -a tokens -d '' -r < "$netrc" # Iterate through tokens and collect machine names local -a machines local -i nxm local token for token in "${tokens[@]}" ; do if ((nxm)) ; then machines=("${machines[@]}" "$token") nxm=0 elif [[ $token == machine ]] ; then nxm=1 fi done # Generate completion reply local machine for machine in "${machines[@]}" ; do [[ $machine == "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"* ]] || continue COMPREPLY=("${COMPREPLY[@]}" "$machine") done } complete -F _ftp -o default ftp