Command Line Completion Using Invoked Command

• US 20090248902A1
• Filed: 03/28/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Blue, George M.
• Application Number:
  US12/058,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

A method for command line completion comprises receiving a command line completion request from a user comprising a command, a flag and a partial input, executing the command using the flag and passing the partial input to the command, receiving an output from the command comprising valid completions of the partial input or an indication that no valid completions correspond to the partial input, and presenting to the user the valid completions or an indication that no valid completions correspond to the partial input.

Claims

1. A method for command line completion:

receiving a command line completion request from a user comprising a command and a partial input;

in response to receiving the command line completion request, executing the command using a flag and passing the partial input to the command;

determining, by the command, if the command comprises valid completions of the partial input in response to executing the command using the flag;

based on the determination, receiving an output from the command comprising the valid completions of the partial input or an indication that no valid completions correspond to the partial input; and

presenting to the user the valid completions or an indication that no valid completions correspond to the partial input.