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Old 06-14-2002
Auto complete
How can I set up the profile for a use so when entering a eg first charachter of a file and then pressing the tab OS will complete the file name.
Thanks in advance Tom
# 2  
Old 06-14-2002
Check these three links - each has different information which together complete the answer - normally it's expected that you do a search yourself before asking questions but I found that it would have been very difficult to find these without knowing one of the answers.

HTH!

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Old 06-15-2002
I'm using bash it has that feature, but it works only when bash can see those files, so if you want auto comlete to work with the files that are for example in /var/log you need to add it to your path, but in working dir it should work anyway.
# 4  
Old 06-26-2002
Thank you all.
I used set -o emacs and pressing ESC twice does the job.
TomSmilie
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Old 07-28-2005
how about ksh
how can we set auto complete in ksh??
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