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dirnames

Do directory name completion if no matches are

produced.

filenames

Inform the readline library that the intended output is

filenames, so that the library can do any filename-specific

processing, such as adding a trailing slash for directories

or removing trailing spaces.

nospace

Inform the readline library that it should not append a

space to words completed at the end of a line.

plusdirs

Attempt directory completion and add any results to the

list of completions already generated.

-p With no commands, print all completion settings in a way

that can be reread.

-P prefix

The prefix is added to each resulting string as a prefix after all

the other options have been applied.

-r Remove the completion settings for the given commands, or

all settings if no commands.

-s Save as -A service.

-S suffix

The suffix is added to each resulting string as a suffix after all

the other options have been applied.

-u Same as -A user.

-v Same as -A variable.

-W wordlist

Split wordlist (a single shell word) using $IFS. The generated

list contains the members of the split list that matched the

word being completed. Each member is expanded using brace

expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expan-

sion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. Shell

quoting is respected. ...