Lee Newton » history http://www.blogmeetsworld.com all the splinters of my mind Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:57:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fast Linux CLI tips http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/fast-linux-cli-tips/ http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/fast-linux-cli-tips/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:18 +0000 LRN http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/?p=243 It came up in discussion with Terry Smith recently, just how much of a revelation bash’s tab to auto complete feature is for someone who hasn’t discovered it yet.

Tab once to have bash auto complete a string on the CLI which has only one possible match in your current path. If nothing happens, tab twice to see possible matches then continue typing to narrow the focus to one possible match, then tab again to auto complete.

It’s not worth going into any more detail, but if you don’t already know what I’m talking about, next time you’ve got a linux terminal window open, start hitting tab.

Enjoy.

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