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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:09:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
To: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>
cc: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>,
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Subject: Re: Wow!
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Andrew Short wrote:

> 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 <Tab> 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 don't know about bash, but this is a favorite feature of tcsh



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