autocomplete
 

How do I enable autocomplete in Linux?
I am running Red Hat 7.2, about the only thing I dont like is that the auto complete thing (hitting esc twice after typing a few letters and the word appears) is not working. It worked in version 7.1, don't know what happened here.
Any ideas? :confused:

hmm, i never even knew two escapes did anything... any idea where that originates from?

just use the tab key instead.

Esc thing works in csh, tab is for bash.

The tab is used to autocomplete commands. But pressing esc two times is used for completing file names in the current directory. I use it both for ksh and bash so I don't think it's csh specific.
If I type ls ab<esc><esc> then it will complete the command to be ls abcd if there is a file called abcd in the current directory.

not in bash it doesn't, seems to have *exactly* the same functionality as tab

Well that's what I was trying to say. Pressing the esc key twice is not the same as using the tab key.
I think the tab key is bash specific though because it doesn't work on ksh in linux or unix.

hey tahnks everybody, the tab works. Hehe newbie mistake :D . its weird cause I used to use the esc key for this...