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Is there a way to make bash more TAB friendly?

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Mar 15, 20267068 views
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I use bash on both my Mac and as my cygwin shell. Overall, I'm quite pleased with it. My one complaint however is that its TAB completion isn't as good as Windows Command Line TAB completion. For example, if there are two files with the same prefix, then bash just beeps at me when I try to TAB comp…

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To get the ‘cycle through possible completions’ behavior, copy the following into an appropriate place in your .bashrc file: Also, bash-completion provides many extra kinds of completion besides just pathname completion. For example, menu-complete w…

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