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16.5 Automatic generation of programmable completion script ¶

It is almost certain that we are running GNU Bash in an environment with support for GNU Readline completion of the command line; it is quite useful to provide programmable completion for the scripts we write. When a script has a tree hierarchy of actions it is useful to automatically generate the completion facilities for the action commands; this is what the functions documented here are for.

• actions completion api:		Application interface to completion script generation.
• actions completion declaration:		How to declare automatic script generation.
• actions completion script:		How to use the generated script.