Please use ***
[code][/code]*** tags around your code and data, to preserve the original formatting and to improve readability. Do
not use quote tags, bolding, colors, "start/end" lines, or other creative techniques.
You've have almost a hundred posts here. I think you should know this by now.
Now to answer the opening question: In
bash, use the
-e option in
read to tell it to use the
readline library. This will give it the full range of editing features, including tab completion.