Autocomplete my username...

fatrandy13 · 10-14-2005, 11:03 AM

Is there anyway to autocomplete typing in your username......on my debian box, my username is the same as on this forum, fatrandy13....when typing commands like 'ps -u fatrandy13' i would like to be able to just type fat and hit tab, like i would for a program or cd-ing into another directory....

~fatrandy13

MensaWater · 10-14-2005, 11:43 AM

You could always just assign it to a variable as follows:

u=fatrandy13;export u

From then on any time you want to reference "fatandy" you type "$u" instead.

On your initial login you'd need to type in fatrandy because you haven't defined a shell environment yet but once you were logged in you could use it. You could make it globally available (for bash, sh and ksh) by adding the above to /etc/profile. Then all logins with those shells would inherit that environment variable.

fatrandy13 · 10-14-2005, 02:58 PM

thanks, i'll give it a try

phil.d.g · 10-14-2005, 04:02 PM

not a lot shorter, but everywhere you need your username you could use

Code:

`whoami`

for example

Code:

ps -u `whoami`