killall completion

killall completion

[Johan Sundström]

Hi!

Yet another old-style/compctl completion, this time for killall; perhaps
worth including in zsh completion archive batch supplied with zsh:s? It's
designed for the ps of SunOS 5.7 or the ps shipped with Red Hat Linux
(where ps --version says "procps version 1.2.7").

functions complete-killall () 
{
  if [[ "$(uname)" == "SunOS" ]]; then
      reply=($(ps -o comm|sed '1d;s/^-//'|awk -F/ '{print $NF}'|sort|uniq))
  else
      reply=($(ps alwww|cut -b72-|egrep -v '^\('|sed '1d;s/^-//;s/ .*//'|awk -F/ '{print $NF}'|sort|uniq))
  fi
}

compctl -K complete-killall killall

Could be improved by somehow filtering out the commands of the pipe chain
from the completion namespace, but I couldn't come up with a working
scheme within five minutes, so I dropped the idea. :-)

Other possible future improvement is a wider process scope (ps -a/-e
respectively) if UID==0. Comments, improvements and general thoughts
always welcome!

 /Johan Sundström (non-subscriber)

Re: killall completion

[Peter Stephenson]

Johan Sundstr m wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Yet another old-style/compctl completion, this time for killall; perhaps
> worth including in zsh completion archive batch supplied with zsh:s?

On the whole, I'm not expecting much to be added to the old-style
completion functions.  I realise it's hard to write new ones from scratch
and we should include a minimal description and pointers of what else to
read.

If anyone does want to add new compctl examples, which doesn't hurt, could
they please send patches, it makes life much easier (more work for them, of
course).

pws
-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>