Complete specific filenames and directories

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19202075

  •  30-06-2022
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Question

If I want Bash to complete only filenames with extension .foo for the command bar I can run

$ complete -f -X '!*.foo' bar

This, however, disables completion of directories preceding a .foo file. How do I preserve completion of directories?

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Solution 

complete -f -o plusdirs -X '!*.foo' bar
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