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How do you set a minimum number of characters for Bash tab completion?
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Is there a way to set a minimum number of characters to Bash's tab completion? My reason is that I often accidentally press the tab key on an empty command line and it takes forever to load the command list.
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You can tell bash/completion to NOT try completion for an empty entry through the use of the 'no_empty_cmd_completion' shell option. In your .bashrc (or alternate), enter this command: Exit your bash session and restart (or 'source .bashrc'), and pr…
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