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From: mjw@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 1.4 Shell suggestion
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Date: 7 Nov 89 05:20:07 GMT
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I guess someone's already suggested this, but...


the cmu cshell does filename completion 

if I type 

ls fo[ESC][ESC] it will complete the common part match of files starting
with fo.
ls fo[ESC]l  will list all the files starting with fo and then allow you
to continue.

under the bourne again c shell (bash) this works for commands on the
path as well.

It's a wonderful idea, and would be especially nice for 40 char amiga
file names full of spaces and
whatnot (I guess it'd have to put in ""s then).

michael