using namespace System.Management.Automation using namespace System.Management.Automation.Language Register-ArgumentCompleter -Native -CommandName 'wc' -ScriptBlock { param($wordToComplete, $commandAst, $cursorPosition) $commandElements = $commandAst.CommandElements $command = @( 'wc' for ($i = 1; $i -lt $commandElements.Count; $i++) { $element = $commandElements[$i] if ($element -isnot [StringConstantExpressionAst] -or $element.StringConstantType -ne [StringConstantType]::BareWord -or $element.Value.StartsWith('-') -or $element.Value -eq $wordToComplete) { break } $element.Value }) -join ';' $completions = @(switch ($command) { 'wc' { [CompletionResult]::new('-c', 'c', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the byte counts') [CompletionResult]::new('--bytes', 'bytes', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the byte counts') [CompletionResult]::new('-m', 'm', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the character counts') [CompletionResult]::new('--chars', 'chars', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the character counts') [CompletionResult]::new('-l', 'l', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the line counts') [CompletionResult]::new('--lines', 'lines', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the line counts') [CompletionResult]::new('-L', 'L', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the maximum display width') [CompletionResult]::new('--max-line-length', 'max-line-length', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the maximum display width') [CompletionResult]::new('-w', 'w', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the word counts') [CompletionResult]::new('--words', 'words', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print the word counts') [CompletionResult]::new('-h', 'h', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print help') [CompletionResult]::new('--help', 'help', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print help') [CompletionResult]::new('-V', 'V', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print version') [CompletionResult]::new('--version', 'version', [CompletionResultType]::ParameterName, 'Print version') break } }) $completions.Where{ $_.CompletionText -like "$wordToComplete*" } | Sort-Object -Property ListItemText }