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I always wanted to have the PEAR commands get auto completed on my bash. Here is how it works:

complete -W "`pear 2>&1 | awk '{ORS=" "} /[a-zA-Z-]+  / {print $1}'`" -f pear

Simply run the command in your shell and/or add it to e.g. your .bashrc. You will have autocompletion for all PEAR Installer commands and for filenames in paralell.

^{Usually I'd have expected to get the stuff working using complete's "-C" option, this did not work for me, I got a list of all possible commands when typing <tab><tab>, but neither a correct completion suggestion nor a completion.}