Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28Apr2007 22:24, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:07 -0400, Michael Klinosky wrote:
| >>> Does Fedora have file/directory name completion (when using a terminal)?
| >
| >Yes, install the 'bash-completion' package then restart your terminal
| >(or open a new one) and then you can use the Tab key to automagically
| >complete commands, filenames and directories. Some commands even have
| >associated completion-capable switches, too; but that's dependent on the
| >program's packaging.
| >
| >Hope that helps.
| Unless you use c-shell instead of bash (one of my dirty little
| secrets). File completion is built into the c-shell but you have to
| turn it on with "set filec".
Actually, it's built into tcsh. Csh predated the patches that
constituted tcsh (tcsh is just csh with the interaction patches,
including the file completion stuff).
| Alas, no command switch completion
| though. No idea on korn shell, zsh, etc. if you're running one of those.
Bash and zsh do file completion out of the box. I somewhat prefer zsh's
style myself.
Thanks. I started using c-shell in about 1988 when the alternatives
were sh (note, not bash) and ksh. I couldn't remember whether it did
file completion then or not. I switched to tcsh probably in the mid
1990s when I was doing a lot of shell programming and started running
into the limitation of csh of that era. Now that bash has the features
that tcsh had back when I should probably switch but I still like the
logic control syntax of tcsh over bash for scripting (e.g., endif
instead of fi).
Cheers,
Dave
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