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Old 03-09-2006
Friendly command script
Hi,

I need a unix script to help my students using unix and will make it more friedly with them.

The script will do something like that, when a user writes a letter, then it will be apeared to the screen the available commands or files that fit to the spesific letter that the user gives.

For a example,

when you write the letter `m`, the result will apear to the screen is all the commands that start with letter m. make makdir,mv and etc. Or the files in the spesific folder that start with letter īmī.

If you have anything that will help with this tell me pls.

Thank you
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Old 03-09-2006
HP-UX has keysh. From the man page...
Quote:
NAME
keysh - context-sensitive softkey shell

SYNOPSIS
keysh

DESCRIPTION
keysh is an extension of the standard Korn-shell

keysh uses hierarchical softkey menus and context-sensitive help to aid users in building command-lines, combining the power of the Korn-shell with the ease-of-use of a menu system.

COMMAND ENTRY
keysh continually parses the command-line and always presents the user with an appropriate set of current choices on the softkey labels.

The user can select these softkeys to create readable softkey commands on the command-line. keysh automatically translates these softkey commands into equivalent HP-UX commands prior to executing them.

Alternatively, the user can ignore the softkeys altogether in favor of entering the traditional HP-UX commands directly, as when using the Korn-shell
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Old 03-10-2006
tcsh also has stuff like this. You need to do:
set autolist
for all of it to work. Let's say that "make" is the only command on my path that starts with "ma". I could type "ma" <tab> and I would see "make" on my screen. If I had "make" and "mail" as the only two commands that start with "ma", I could type "ma" ^D and I would see those two programs. This assumes that control-D is my EOF character. There is more info on the tcsh man page.
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