From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 03:28:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10981 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 03:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA10930 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 03:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yvfo8-0002ct-00; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:26:08 +0200 Message-ID: <19980713122608.B10068@cityip.co.za> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:26:08 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Andrew Short , Roman Katsnelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wow! Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Short , Roman Katsnelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Short on Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 11:48:20AM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 09 Jul 1998 at 11:48 SAT, Andrew Short wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > > > in Linux there was a feature which was helpful with long filenames: > > as you typed a filename, you could hit and if what you've already > > typed was unique, it would finish the name for you. Any equivalence in > > FreeBSD? > > Sounds like a feature of the bash shell. Install and use that you'll have > your file (and directory) name completion back...just the way it always > worked. Yup. Many other shells also offer filename comletion, of course. > I know i will get corrected if I am wrong in saying this, but I believe > that bash is the usual default shell for linux, but not for FreeBSD? Let's not lose sight of the fact that Linux isn't a single entity. Many (most? all??) Linux distributions use bash as the default shell, though this is not necessarily the case. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message