Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:36:00 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> Cc: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wow! Message-ID: <199807091836.LAA02677@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:48:20 CDT." <Pine.SUN.3.96.980709114508.4984D-100000@mariner.cris.com>
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>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 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
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