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Command-Line Completion¤

Introduction¤

In case you are using bash or zsh as your terminal shell, you should enable Command-line tab completion for cmemc.

Tab completion is a powerful feature and will save you a lot of typing work. Furthermore, it will help you to learn the different commands, parameters and options and will auto-complete parameter values taken live from your eccenca Corporate Memory instance (such as graph IRIs, project IDs, etc.).

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We suggest using zsh so you can take advantage of its advanced menu-completion feature.

Installation¤

In order to enable tab completion with zsh run the following command:

completion setup for zsh
eval "$(_CMEMC_COMPLETE=zsh_source cmemc)"

To enable the interactive menu as seen above in zsh run the following command:

interactive menu for zsh
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select

In order to enable tab completion with bash run the following command:

completion setup for bash
eval "$(_CMEMC_COMPLETE=bash_source cmemc)"

You may want to add this line to your .bashrc or .zshrc.

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