On Aug 25, 9:23 am, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote:
> > The CD command requires an ungodly amount of typing and is a lot of
> > work. It slows you down and is prone to typos.
>
> For zipping around the filesystem with cd, you'll want command line
> completion:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_completion
>
> > In MS-DOS, I wrote a
> > utility using Visual Basic for DOS that lets you quickly fly around
> > the file system using the mouse and the enter key on the keyboard. All
> > it is a simple form with a directory listbox and a file listbox on it.
> > Couldn't be a simpler app in existance yet very useful and a time
> > saver.
>
> Something like it already exists in bash:
>
> 1) open a terminal
> 2) type cd and hit the tab key twice
> 3) find the folder you want and highlight it with your mouse
> 4) right-click > Copy
> 5) right-click > Paste
> 6) press enter
>
> As an alternative to steps 4 and 5 you can press Shift+Insert.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
That's an interesting trick actually. However, the results that it
spits out often don't match the output of the ls command.
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