This is a tool to allow the iRODS client icommands to have auto-complete functionality within Bash.
The installation consists of two parts; building the command-line tool and configuring the bash auto-completion script.
The tool is built with the given makefile. If you have iRODS installed in a non-standard location then copy the default_user.prefs file to user.prefs to allow it to be accessed by the makefile. aThen djust the IRODS_HOME variable in user.prefs to the correct location.
cp default_user.prefs user.prefs
You can then build the tool by running
make all
which will create the tool at build/irods_bash_completer. You can copy this executable to wherever you want to run it from.
The Bash auto-completion script is at bash/icommands.d. You will need to edit the opts line in this file to match the
location of where you copied the executable irods_bash_completer to. For example if you installed it in /usr/bin, then
you would need to change the line from
opts=`/home/billy/Projects/irods_bash_completer/build/irods_bash_completer ${cur}`
to
opts=`/usr/bin/irods_bash_completer ${cur}`
At the bottom of the file it contains the auto-completion configurations for a number of the iRODS icommands. If you wish to add more entries then just add them in the format of:
complete -F _irods_completer <icommand to add>
Once you have and this needs to be copied into the directory into /etc/bash_completion.d/.
iRODS Bash Completer is written by Simon Tyrrell. For questions or support, contact me directly or via the Earlham Institute page.
Copyright (c) 2018-22, Earlham Institute under the Apache License Version 2.0.