[Help-bash] How to let completion sorted by time?

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

If I type TAB to complete a command with files in a directory, the
files will be sorted by alphabetic order. Is there a way to print them
ordered by their modification time when I type TAB? Thanks.

[Chet Ramey]

Post by Peng Yu
Hi,
If I type TAB to complete a command with files in a directory, the
files will be sorted by alphabetic order. Is there a way to print them
ordered by their modification time when I type TAB? Thanks.

You can do it if you're using programmable completion. Use a shell
function, where you can sort the contents of $COMPREPLY any way you want,
and use `-o nosort' as one of the options when you install the compspec.