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1 Command Line Autocomplete
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 I was working with a fellow aspiring Linux user today on a project with him
10 (yes, I'm talking about you Eric) and I noticed that when he would 'cd', he
11 would completely type the folder name, even when it was apache-tomcat-6.0.26.
12 If you've been using Linux for any amount of time, this might give you a
13 headache because you know about Bash's autocomplete feature. I mentioned it to
14 him and after seeing what it did, he exclaimed that he had been looking all
15 over for that and was never able to find it.
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17 Note that this little trick works on windows command line as well as linux/unix
18 command line (most shells support some variant of this - bash, zsh, ksh). While
19 the two categories behave slightly differently, it still provides a
20 functionality that is comparable to that of a breath of fresh air in a sewage
21 treatment plant.
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23 For those of you who are impatient, **the auto-complete feature of bash is
24 executed with the <tab> key**.
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26 How is it used? We'll use linux for this example.
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28 If you type ...
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31 cd /usr/li <tab>
32 ----
33
34 ...the shell will fill in /usr/lib. Now, you will notice that there are two
35 directories in the /usr/ directory that start with lib. If you then proceed to
36 type...
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39 cd /usr/libe <tab>
40 ----
41
42 ...the shell will fill in /usr/libexec.
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44 Neat, huh?
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48 Category:Linux
49 Category:Bash
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