Well, for me, I cannot live without this feature. On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:43:35PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > It's not a bug, its a feature. > > It's called command completion. The (bash) shell is trying to help you > out by finishing off your typing for you. > > If you don't like it, use a different shell. Zsh has command completion > as well, but pressing <tab><tab> does nothing. I think the equivalent > for zsh is ctrl-d. I don't know about any of the other shells. > > Matthew > > ktb wrote: > > > > When I tried 'exim <tab><tab>' the output listed 156 files in my home > > directory. This is different than the output that you got. Am I > > experiencing a bug? I'm using Bash for the shell. The Bash man page is > > large and I may have missed a reference to this <tab><tab> function but > > I didn't see anything listed under "commands" or "list" that pertained > > to <tab><tab>. I'll keep looking. > > Thanks, > > kent > > > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:14:35 -0500, ktb wrote: > > > > > > >Anyone know the name of this program? > > > > > > The shell, IIRC. Kent, have you tried something like this? > > > exim<tab><tab> yields, for example: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} exim > > > exim exim_dumpdb exim_lock eximconfig > > > exim_dbmbuild exim_fixdb exim_tidydb eximstats > > > - -- > > > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm > > > your > > > ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of > > > souls. > > > - > > > -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc > > > > > > iQA/AwUBN4F1gXpf7K2LbpnFEQIOMgCfVxPGW6eqFSBKsWowSezrmulWduQAmwXB > > > 3xB8F5S6O7AggEyHEmIPvjSJ > > > =fWoQ > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
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