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ethanchic · 04-09-2003, 03:07 AM

I am a newbie to *BSD and my question seems stupid to you but for the benefit of others also I would like to know how will I autocomplete the command by just pressing the tab button.

cdw · 04-09-2003, 01:15 PM

Read the manpage for your shell.

sathyan · 04-10-2003, 12:51 AM

In order for autocomplete to work well, just try using the bash shell in BSD. Change your login shell to bash, it has a lot of features like history, autocomplete etc.

ethanchic · 04-10-2003, 01:13 AM

how will i change my login shell to bash?

Blackknight · 04-10-2003, 02:14 AM

'set filec' should work for csh and should be (by default ?) in your .cshrc. You should read the different files in /usr/share/skel/ which are the skeletons for rc files that are usually copied by adduser.
Try bash and csh and choose the shell you prefer.

ethanchic · 04-12-2003, 12:22 AM

Thanks guys for your help.

trn · 04-17-2003, 09:07 PM

chsh -s /path/to/shell works to change the shell, and all the shells are in the ports.

cdw · 04-19-2003, 03:22 PM

for csh
set filec
"ctrl [" to complete

5amYan · 04-26-2003, 12:02 AM

took me about three weeks to drop bash for csh
(which I believe is really tcsh)