Is there a way to configure the terminal auto-complete so that it is case-insensitive? I am running Suse 9.0 using the Konsole terminal. Also, is there a central place to get al the commands available in the terminal, such as ls, cd, ctrl+r, etc..?

thanks!

I'm not too sure about case-insensitive autocomplete (though it would be nice sometimes!) As for your second question though, it depends what sort of utilities you have installed. Of course, if you have more software installed, there will be a wider variety of commands available from the console, but there are a lot of standard ones. Some, such as 'cd', are provided by the shell (usually bash, if you're using Linux), and others, such as 'ls' are provided by separate programs.

I'd suggest checking out RUTE, an extremely thorough introduction to Linux. A much more concise introduction to the basics is the Linux Cookbook. Also, this article gives a nice overview of most of the useful console commands. Last but not least, there's a list of useful commands here on the LinuxQuestions Wiki. There's plenty more if you do some google searching. Good luck!

thanks! I've been looking for tutorials like those for quite some time now.

FYI....

add the following to your /etc/inputrc

set completion-ignore-case On

for case-insensitive autocomplete.

it doesn't work exactly like I hoped (I'm used to the ESC-ESC functionality in MKS), but it'll do.

Now I'm going to try to bind a keystoke to do exactly what I want it to do.

thanks again!

ok, I figured it out. What I actually needed bound was filename-completion instead of completion. I bound \e\e (esc esc) to filename completion and it now works exactly like I wanted. The TAB key is bound to completion which includes commands and function names in the completion along with filenames. In fact, I beleive the commands and function names take precedence over filenames. This was the behavior I wasn't expecting. But fllename-completion works like I expected. Thanks again for the reference material you posted. Priceless information.



in FC3 it's complete-filename