From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 11:36:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29966 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02677; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807091836.LAA02677@implode.root.com> To: Andrew Short cc: Roman Katsnelson , "q's" Subject: Re: Wow! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:48:20 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:36:00 -0700 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? Bash and tcsh both have filename completion. Tcsh will give you a list of files if there is an ambiguity. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message