# Bash completion for Makefile # Loosely adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/38415982/1472048 _makecomplete() { COMPREPLY=() # https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Names.html local files=() for f in 'GNUmakefile' 'makefile' 'Makefile' ; do [ -f "$f" ] && files+=("$f") done [ "${#files[@]}" -eq 0 ] && return 0 # collect all targets local targets=() for f in "${files[@]}" ; do while IFS='' read -r line ; do targets+=("$line") done < <(grep -oE '^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+:([^=]|$)' "$f" | cut -d':' -f1) done [ "${#targets[@]}" -eq 0 ] && return 0 # use the targets for completion while IFS='' read -r line ; do COMPREPLY+=("$line") done < <(compgen -W "$(tr ' ' '\n' <<<"${targets[@]}" | sort -u)" -- "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}") return 0 } complete -o nospace -F _makecomplete make complete -o nospace -F _makecomplete gnumake