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- From: rwp@fc.hp.com (Bob Proulx)
- Subject: Re: Which Shell to Use?
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:49:22 GMT
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- Satish Chittamuru (satishc@microsoft.com) wrote:
- : BTW, how does one accomplish file name completion in bash. An ESC
- : used to do it in ksh, but I haven't been able to do it in bash. I
-
- In emacs mode it is TAB. But to help me be compatible between csh,
- ksh and bash I put the following in my $HOME/.inputrc file. Bash
- reads it at startup. My terminal sends a control-h not a DEL so I
- added that too.
-
- M-ESC: complete
- M-Control-h: backward-kill-word
- M-TAB: tab-insert
-
- With this ESC-ESC does completion just like ksh. ESC-backspace kills
- the word behind. ESC-TAB inserts an explicit TAB. (I shouldn't need
- that but I did.)
-
- : usually do a C-? to see my options and manually type in the rest
- : of the stuff. I know there is a bash.dvi available but I don't have
- : TeX setup yet. If anyone can send me the PS version of the manual,
-
- Just for you info... There is online help for shell builtins of a sort
- in bash. Try typing in "help help" to get started. Then try other
- commands.
-
- rwp@hprwp:/users/rwp: help help
-
- help: help [pattern ...]
- Display helpful information about builtin commands. If PATTERN is
- specified, gives detailed help on all commands matching PATTERN,
- otherwise a list of the builtins is printed.
-
- rwp@hprwp:/users/rwp: help echo
-
- echo: echo [-neE] [arg ...]
- Output the ARGs. If -n is specified, the trailing newline is
- suppressed. If the -e option is given, interpretation of the
- following backslash-escaped characters is turned on:
- \a alert (bell)
- \b backspace
- [...deleted...]
-
- Bob
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