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I've been meaning to find a solution for this for YEARS.
I am sooo much more productive in vim when manipulating files than bash for this reason.
If I have
file_12390983421 file_12391983421 file_12340983421 file_12390986421 In bash and type file_1->tab , it obviously lists:
file_12390983421 file_12391983421 file_12340983421 file_12390986421 And this is a horrible bore and painful to work with.
The same sequence in vim will loop through the files one at a time.
Please someone tell me how to do this in bash, or if there is another shell that can do this, I'll switch tomorrow.
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Bash completion is a functionality through which Bash helps users type their commands more quickly and easily. It does this by presenting possible options when users press the Tab key while typing a command.
Command-line completion allows the user to type the first few characters of a command, program, or filename, and press a completion key (normally Tab ↹ ) to fill in the rest of the item. The user then presses Return or ↵ Enter to run the command or open the file.
You can use the complete command with the -p option to get a list of all or specific completions.
By default TAB is bound to the complete readline command. Your desired behavior would be menu-complete instead. You can change your readlines settings by editing ~/.inputrc. To rebind TAB, add this line:
TAB: menu-complete For more details see the READLINE section in man bash.
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