name completion in terminal?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Apr2007 22:24, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
| Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> 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.

Cheers,
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