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Old 03-02-2004
autocomplete - bash

Hi all
I have installed Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 onto a Proliant DL580 (dual XEON 2.8GHz processors).

The bash shell is not autocompleting filenames/directorynames when I hit escape twice. History (via Ctrl+r works). Is there a setting somewhere to enable this?

Thanks.
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Old 03-02-2004
bash calls this textual completion and it's very different than the ksh version. You must be in emacs mode "set -o emacs". And it's tab rather than escape. There are a bunch of other completion options and "bind -P" will list them.
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Old 03-02-2004
Thanks very much, that's done the trick.
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