Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:26:08 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>, Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wow! Message-ID: <19980713122608.B10068@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980709114508.4984D-100000@mariner.cris.com>; from Andrew Short on Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 11:48:20AM -0500 References: <35A4F223.A9CBCB87@graphnet.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980709114508.4984D-100000@mariner.cris.com>
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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 <Tab> 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
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