command prompter

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Terrence Enger wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am used, working on another platform, to having a tool which relieves
> of the need to remember command line parameters ... sort of an entry
> panel with brief prompts and hyperlinks to the applicable part of the
> man page.
> 
> Is there such a tool for GNU/Linux?  Nothing applicable jumped out at me
> from the first hundred results of a google search for linux command
> prompter.
> 
> If this does not already exist, is there anybody else who thinks maybe
> it should?  If anybody expresses an interest, I shall put together an
> example of what it might do for you.

    You could do it with bash's completion functions.

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