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This has passed me by so I thought I'd mention it here for others to use - I'm finding it actually very useful: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316 Most shells allow command completion, typically bound to the TAB key, which allow you to complete the names of commands stored upon your PATH, file names, or directory names. Some shells have started allowing you to do even more: completing arguments to commands. Two notable shells which allow this are zsh, and bash. If you're not using it right now you can load it by typing into your shell ". /etc/bash_completion" as shown here: $ . /etc/bash_completion [ you can put that line (with the . ) in ~/.bashrc ] Once this is done you'll be able to TAB-complete many common arguments to programs, for example: $ apt-get upd[TAB] $ apt-get upg[TAB] Only certain commands have enabled bash_completion support so if you want more commands supported, file some wishlist bugs. ;-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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