I wrote FastComplete as a solution to this problem. The tool creates a local cache of links on your hard drive to everything in your $PATH. It uses a couple of tricks to make sure all the stats remain locally, while still allowing the remote file to change without needing to update the cache. Linux should also keep this information in memory disk cache making tab completion almost instant again. Yay!

You can find FastComplete at https://github.com/mithro/rcfiles/blob/master/bin/fastcomplete It is a stand alone python program which shouldn’t have any non-core dependencies. The usage documentation is as follows;

Fast complete creates a local disk cache of your path.
It’s specifically designed to make bash tab complete run much faster. The correct fix would be to add caching to bash, but it was to hard to do so.

To find out what path fastcomplete is currently using:

> ~tansell/bin/fastcomplete
# Found 3977 commands
export PATH=/home/tansell/bin: ... :/home/build/google3/googledata/validators:/home/build/google3/ads/db

To get fastcomplete to rebuild it’s cache:

> ~tansell/bin/fastcomplete --rebuild
# Using path of '/home/tansell/bin: ... :/home/build/google3/googledata/validators:/home/build/google3/ads/db'
# Cache /usr/local/google/users//tansell/tabcache/d7e5fb63454ae33b4a171b6437be904a did not exist! Rebuilding....
# Looking in: /home/tansell/bin (execv)
...
# Looking in: /usr/bin (symlink)
...
# Looking in: /home/build/google3/ads/db (execv)
# Found 3977 commands
export PATH=/usr/local/google/users//tansell/tabcache/d7e5fb63454ae33b4a171b6437be904a

To use fastcomplete all the time add the following as the *LAST* line in your ~/.bashrc file. Fastcomplete will echo some output to stderr so you can see what is happening.

# Create a cache of the command
eval `~tansell/bin/fastcomplete $PATH`

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AMAZING!! i just saw this in the g+ film festival.

i cried. this is incredible!

+Unofficial Google+ Film Festival

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This is the Chromatic Typewriter, my entry to the 2012 West Prize competition. The prize is awarded via popular vote this year. Click the source to get to the West Collection and to download the West….

From the top
* Shroom Bloom
* Sandwich
* Aquarium (plus expansions)
* Experiment (plus expansions)
* Space Mission
* Space Bastards
* Lemming Mafia
* Space Maze
* Paperclip Railways
* Galaxy Trucker + Galaxy Trucker The Big Expansion #
* Undermining
* Settlers of America: Trails to Rails
* Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries #
* Ticket to Ride: Asia Expansion
* Ticket to Ride: 1912 Expansion
* Soul Hunter
* Modern Society
* Stargate SG1 #
* Battleship Galaxies

Things missing
* Interstellar Mayhem
* Ticket to Ride: Dice expansion
* Pandemic + On the Brink Expansion #
* Space Alert + Space Alert Expansion #
* Cosmic Encounter

I have only played the games marked with a hash. Who wants to play some board games?

Spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/a/mithis.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApVlNZ_Rvdw6dDh3SEIwT3ZWcXBzVFNkYzR2aVVxTHc&hl=en_US#gid=0

Sydney International Airport

5 Ross Smith Ave, Mascot NSW 2020, Australia

Jurong Bird Park

2 Jurong Hill, Singapore City 628925

Jurong Bird Park

2 Jurong Hill, Singapore City 628925

Feels kinda like a more pleasant pins and needles.

Unknown address

20 Netheravon Rd, Singapore

Seoul Jongno-gu Donui-dong