[ale] Surprised by tab expansion

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

It is possible to configure Bash's tab completion to do some really
neat stuff -- http://www.linux.com/articles/54005

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>  I've been doing tab expansion for a long time, but today I could only
>  remember the middle portion of a dir name.
>
>  So I typed "cd /..../*123*/"
>
>  I then hit tab even though I was sure it would not work.  Instead my *
>  chars were replaced by the correct data.  Very cool.
>
>  Greg



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