Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:24:14 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh [TAB] ; man someth-[TAB]? Message-ID: <20020419122414.D56598@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <200204182106.01119.weaver@earthcorp.com>; from weaver@earthcorp.com on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:06:01PM -0500 References: <20020418180024.D291-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <200204182011.45710.weaver@earthcorp.com> <20020419114114.P56548@k7.mavetju.org> <200204182106.01119.weaver@earthcorp.com>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:06:01PM -0500, Julian Peterson wrote: > That's not what it's designed for. > man a* is going to expand to: > man <everything in the current dir starting with an a> > Thats just the shells globbing in action. > > With the complete stuff, you type "man a<tab>" and it will complete as much > as it can. Typing "man shut<tab>" will expand to "man shutdown" (assuming > no other man pages have the prefix "shut") > > You can type "man a<ctrl-d>" and it will list all possible completions (ie > all man pages starting with an "a") Aha, I see now how it works. Nifty feature :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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