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From: Amol Deshpande <amold@MICROSOFT.com>
To: "'zsh-users@math.gatech.edu'" <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: need help with compctl for NT
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:23:11 -0700
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hi,

I want to complete  (For zsh 3.0.x only) the command "net stop" with the
output
of the command "net start". The output looks something like this:

These Windows 2000 services are started:

   Computer Browser
   Logical Disk Manager
   Messenger
   Net Logon
   Workstation

The command completed successfully.


I came up with a completion that seems to work:

     'c[-1,stop]' -s "$(net.exe start|grep.exe -v ^T|sed.exe -ne
's/\([A-Z][a-zA
-Z].*\)/"\1"/p')" \


The only problem is that this completion only collects the output of "net
start"
on shell startup.  I would like the list to be updated every time i run "net
stop ..."

I tried using -K with a function like so:

function fooger {
    IFS=\t\n
    reply=(`net.exe start|grep.exe -v ^T|sed.exe -ne
's/\([A-Z][a-zA-Z].*\)/"\1"
/p'`); }

the problem with this approach is that it ignores the quotes and seperates
the
words anyway.

Thus, "Computer Browser" becomes
"Computer
Browser"
i.e, 2 separate array elements.


Firstly, is my assumption that the function will run every time i type 
"net stop <tab>" correct ?

If yes, then is there any way to get what I want to actually work ?

thanks,.
-amol

PS:
If all this is really confusing here's the bottom line:

How do i get a completion to be the dynamically updated output
from an external command, where the command output may
contain components with whitepace (just space usually)  ?