CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

Posted May 9, 2006 16:36 UTC (Tue) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
In reply to: CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com) by sholden
Parent article: CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

> Of course I also have directories with tens of thousands of files in them > (over NFS) and you might as well go make some coffee if you double tab in > one of those...

Ah. Bash is smarter than that! It will ask you for confirmation before trying to print out more than about 100 completions.

Add the bash-completion package, and you can even complete on PIDs, signals, Hostnames,Variables, package-names....

Eg: urpmi moz[TAB] -> illa
killall mpl[TAB] -> ayer
ping lo[TAB] -> calhost

CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

Posted May 9, 2006 16:59 UTC (Tue) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link] (3 responses)

...I know I've using tab completion too much when logging in I automatically type "jha[TAB]"

CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

Posted May 9, 2006 17:18 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] (2 responses)

You really know you're in trouble when you try to tab-complete while making out a check. Of course, I personally tend more towards trying to cut-and-paste from my computer to a piece of paper or back.

CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

Posted May 10, 2006 14:20 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (1 responses)

I have to admit to once trying to open the front door of my house with the remote keyless entry fob for my car. :-/

CLI Magic: Bash complete (Linux.com)

Posted May 12, 2006 12:06 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I'm always trying to open my house's front door with my train ticket, and do SecureID authentication with my iPod (hey, it's sort of the same shape and size, i.e., rectangularish, and smaller than a brick).