Quick tip: bash completion for Bioinformatics

The default behavior for the <tab> completion can be extended by creating a new file:

${HOME}/.bash_completion

in your home.
For example, you can write your own Bash Completion for samtools, bwa or your favourite tool by adding the following line in "${HOME}/.bash_completion":

complete -f -X '!*.@(bam|sam|fasta|fa|fa.gz|fastq.gz|fasta.gz)' samtools bwa

Open a new bash and type:

$ samtools index <tab>

myfile.fastq.gz  sequence.fasta

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