From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 15:10: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCB8E37B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 15:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 68390 invoked by uid 1001); 19 May 2001 22:09:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:09:47 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Michael P. Soulier" Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file completion Message-ID: <20010520000947.B60427@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010519171449.P21410@storm.ca> <20010519232145.A16105@student.uu.se> <20010519180703.Q21410@storm.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010519180703.Q21410@storm.ca>; from msoulier@storm.ca on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:07:03PM -0400 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 2001-05-19 (18:07), Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:21:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > > /bin/sh doesn't have support for filename completion AFAIK. > > If you want that you can always use csh (actually tcsh) which is > > included in the base system or you can install some other shell which > > supports it, like bash or zsh, from the ports collection. > > Yeah, I think it would be bash, considering Tom Christiansen's paper on > the evils of csh. ;-) That centred around programming in it, not interactive use, iirc. Neil (an avid tcsh and zsh user) -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message