From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 09:48:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10653 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id MAA19715; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:48:21 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mariner.cris.com (mariner.concentric.net [206.173.119.83]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.8) id MAA06605; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:48:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:48:20 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@mariner.cris.com To: Roman Katsnelson cc: "q's" Subject: Re: Wow! In-Reply-To: <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com> Message-ID: Approved: Maxwell House Rich French Roast MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > in Linux there was a feature which was helpful with long filenames: > as you typed a filename, you could hit and if what you've already > typed was unique, it would finish the name for you. Any equivalence in > FreeBSD? Sounds like a feature of the bash shell. Install and use that you'll have your file (and directory) name completion back...just the way it always worked. I know i will get corrected if I am wrong in saying this, but I believe that bash is the usual default shell for linux, but not for FreeBSD? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ashort@concentric.net "Have fun stormin' da castle!" --Miracle Max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message