question regarding CLI Tab-search

[William Park]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:44:13PM +0000, 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 love to read up more about it (for
>   example, why I can find apps as root but not as user and how I would
>   change such settings) before I post questions here.  I'm a little
>   surprised that I wasn't aware of it before now...

It's called 'completion' and it's part of Readline library.

man readline
/complet

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Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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