complete sentence for bash-completion entry in nova client commands file

Bug #1214505 reported by Nermina Miller
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openstack-manuals
Fix Released
Medium
Nermina Miller

Bug Description

While fixing another bug, I noticed that the following entry in http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/novaclient_commands.html, Example 11. Positional arguments is incomplete:

"bash-completion Prints all of the commands and options to stdout so that the"

This issue was documented in the mailing list, here:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-August/000576.html

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall at managedit.ie> wrote:
> So - While I can't think of an elegant sentence to replace that.. I can
> describe what it does!
>
> It prints out a list of all possible commands and flags that the `nova`
> command can accept, This can be used by bash to facilitate tab-completion of
> commands.
>
> e.g. typing `apt-get i<tab>` at a bash prompt on Ubuntu will auto-complete
> the command to `apt-get install `.
>
> The output from `nova bash-completion` should be used as a hint to bash to
> allow, for example `nova re<tab>` to auto-complete to `nova reboot `.
>
> (Side note.. It looks like this is broken in the current Ubuntu precise
> packages..)
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall

I'd like to fix this problem, if possible.

Thanks!

Nermina Miller

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Nermina Miller (nerminamiller)
milestone: none → havana
Changed in openstack-manuals:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to openstack-manuals (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/47719
Committed: http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/a3456b817a55a312f564a60fcc9a10b79067d212
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit a3456b817a55a312f564a60fcc9a10b79067d212
Author: nerminamiller <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 22 03:48:53 2013 -0400

    Complete sentence in nova cli commands section

    Completed the definition for bash-completion
    Added info about tab completion of commands
    Fixed punctuation and ran a spellcheck of the file
    Removed white spaces from patch 1

    Closes-Bug: 1214505
    Change-Id: I2be0c5fcf564526fa74a6f0210f174369312288d
    Author: Nermina Miller

Changed in openstack-manuals:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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