At 11:19 AM 07/16/98 -0700, Alan Riggins wrote:
On many UNIX systems, you can enable filec, which fills in the remainder of a filename when you hit the escape key. This doesn't work with the default shell in SuSE. I know that I can use the "*" when enough characters have been entered that the file name is unambiguous, but this is more tedious.
Is there an equivalent command in linux for the bsh shell? Alan Riggins
In 'bash' vi mode (i.e. set -o vi), after entering the first few chars. of a filename, you can hit the TAB key for file completions. If the filename is unique it is expanded o/w on second TAB key it will display all the filenames that match with the string you have entered so far and then you can enter a few more to establish an unique substring of the filename you are interested in and enter TAB key again. [I suppose this works in 'emacs' mode as well but I'll let the emacs users speak] HTH -- Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e