Domain completion for linux network tools

07 Feb 2020 in Tech

Domain completion for linux network tools

Bash domain completion for some linux network tools

Link to the github project: https://github.com/rafael747/bash-domain-completion

Domain list

Domains extracted from:

• Amazon Alexa Top Sites (top 50 from each category)
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Internet
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Hacking
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Open_Source
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Programming
  • https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Security

• https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmiK0JCdh5A

Instalation

   cp top_domains.txt /opt/
   cp domain-completion /etc/bash_completion.d/
   cp keep-domains-updated /etc/cron.weekly/     # to keep top_domains.txt file updated

Usage

You can use it already for a set of commands: curl mtr ping wget host dig

Just type the command and then press “tab” to see the suggestions

How this works

• top_domains.txt

This is the word list for the domains generated from the given sources

• domain-completion

This is the configuration file for bash completion. You can change it to assign the domain completion for another commands

• keep-domains-updated

This is a bash script that keeps the word list updated in a week basis

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