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Re: completing commands

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Wed Oct 21 13:43:03 1998

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:37:07 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Araujo, Scott wrote:

> how do i set up linux to finish typing commands for me?  in other words:
> 'tar -xfvz jdk'  will become 'tar -xfvz jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz' if
> jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz is the only file name starting with 'jdk'.

In bash the tab key does it.

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