On Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 08:43 Måns Nilsson <mansa...@besserwisser.org> wrote:

> As a rest from things before Unix, we also have something the Unixen
> don't do, we have a minimum length parser. As seen in amon others OpenVMS.
>
> Syntax becomes:
>
> $ sh int te 0/0/0/1 tran det
>
> (for "show interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/0/0/1 transceiver details")
>
> You don't need to tab.


I was referring moreso to the listing of context-valid
subcommands/arguments, not so much the completion of the commands
themselves, but noted!
That convention's becoming more commonplace in Linux as well; notably the
ipeoute2 suite's commands.
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