- double-tab Command in Linux
- Posted by Buck Turgidson on November 20th, 2003
I recently found out about a command in Linux and apparently Solaris that
allows you to type a letter, say 'a', and then the tab key twice, and you'll
get back all the commands that start with 'a'.
Is there a name for this facility? I've been fooling around with Linux for
about 4 years, and have never run across it before.
- Posted by Jeremy Gray on November 20th, 2003
Buck Turgidson <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote:
It's tab completion, and it's present in shells, editors, and surely
other programs. Read the "programmable completion" part of man bash for
more details. In bash, it's far more powerful than just listing
executables in your path.
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- Posted by osmoma on November 20th, 2003
Jeremy Gray wrote:
This tab completion seems to be useful.
Until now i've used apropos instead.
$ apropos ^ls
- Posted by Alan Connor on November 20th, 2003
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:24:31 +0100, osmoma <os-moma@email.no> wrote:
man -k is easier to type than apropos. :-)
AC
- Posted by mjt on November 20th, 2003
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:51:30 -0500, "Buck Turgidson" <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote:
.... "tab completion". check the manual - it's discussed 
..
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- Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on November 20th, 2003
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 09:02 GMT, Alan Connor wrote:
How wasteful! I use k:
alias k='man -k'
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