question regarding CLI Tab-search

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Matt Cahill wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
>  So, to my amazement, somebody finally revealed to me that I can find the
> names of files on my system by entering the first digits and then hitting Tab
> twice (using an xconsole at least).  What is the name of this feature?  I'd

It's usually called tab completion in conversation and is shell dependent 
(early shells did not have it).  The man page for your shell will have 
copious detail on the topic.  If you are using bash you will find all 
sorts of sub options available (to effect how tab completion works).  In 
the bash man page search for "completion".

Set your favourite options in ~/.bashrc of course.  I also recommend 
making sure ~/.bash_profile reads ~/.bashrc as well.

I have this set in ~/.bashrc as I find it very convenient:

bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on'

Rob

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