bash command completion

[Richard Vickery]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 06/23/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> > This is awesome Ed:  Did it work like this before as well, and I was
> just ignorant
> > of it? Now all the commands are readable, which for me is better as it
> seemed as if
> > they were somewhat jumbled, as the letter you are looking at seemed to
> meshed into
> > the next.
>
> Yes.  Even in F16 and F15 a "letter + tab/tab" gets you a list of commands
> stating
> with that letter...
>
> F16
>
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ l (tab/tab)
> Display all 183 possibilities? (y or n)
>
> And, of course, you could do...2 letters and depending on the number of
> command you
> may get the whole list...
>
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ ld (tab/tab)
> ld           ldapcompare  ldapmodify   ldapsearch   ldattach     ldd
> ldapadd      ldapdelete   ldapmodrdn   ldapurl      ld.bfd       lddlibc4
> ldapb        ldapexop     ldappasswd   ldapwhoami   ldconfig     ld.gold
>
>
> But "tab/tab" on F16 gets you....
>
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ (tab/tab)
> Display all 4262 possibilities? (y or n)
>
> More or less....depending on what you've got installed.
>
> With F17 you no longer have the sole "tab/tab" option....which isn't a bad
> thing IMO.
>
>
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