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Re: bash - completion question ???

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From: benjamin carlyle
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00

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In <321BA66A.1BDA@itc.gu.edu.au> Kevin Grant <K.Grant@itc.gu.edu.au> writes:

>for example
>	l<TAB><TAB>
>produces a list of commands/aliases begiining with 'l' as expected.  But
>if I type
>	vi test.<TAB>
>to try and edit the file test.txt I get nothing but a beep.
>bash does not seem to be performing file-name completion.  Is there
>something i've forgotton in setting it up.

	The beep usually means you've got another file with the same filespec in
the directory, or in your path.  Try pressing <TAB> a second time, and it should
give you a list of the files it's trying to decide between.

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