Auto completing ant target names in MacOSX Terminal

As they say, better late than never. I have to admit that for years now I have been typing in the terminal long ant task/target names, when I just wanted to execute or built something.

At some point when I had to deal with long names such as jbpm.deploy.proc.dbclean etc I ended up creating aliases (a nice feature of unix terminal/bash).

A couple of weeks ago, I just had a chit chat with a good colleague of mine (Ioannis), running Linux (Ubuntu). He was like do you still type ant task names on the terminal - I just auto-complete them dude .

I thought, OK, this is handy and I should have done it before - after some googling I found the solution, here. It requires a MacPorts installation and a simple .bashrc editing. It works fine!

Better late than never .I guess