Tab does not auto-complete in terminal

General · 04-30-2006, 12:21 AM

I am used to hitting tab to list possible matches, in a bash terminal.

Ex.

Code:

$ cp image<tab>
image01.png
image02.png
image10.png
image11.png
$ cp image1<tab>
image10.png
image11.png
$ cp image11<tab>
automatically changes it to:
$ cp image11.png

Fedora Core 5 does not seem to do this. How can I add this feature in?

Penguin of Wonder · 04-30-2006, 12:39 AM

Alot of times you have to hit tab multiple times in order for this feature to kick in. I know I do in Gentoo using Fluxbox.

ataraxia · 04-30-2006, 12:41 AM

It's probably the readline config that's different. Put into your ~/.inputrc:

Code:

set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set show-all-if-unmodified on

_s0t0_ · 05-07-2009, 01:59 PM

make sure you are using /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh as your shell