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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

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