hi,
Sriram Karra wrote on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:37:22PM +0530:
karra>
karra> 1. You are at the shell and you are about to type a command.
karra> 2. You get stuck somewhere because you do not know what is the name of
karra> the flag that accomplishes your task.
Typically bash_completion can be programmed to do the task that you are
looking for. type the following and see what happens:
example #1:
$ source /etc/bash_completion
$ apt-get <tab><tab>
--assume-yes --list-cleanup --trivial-only -y
--build --no-act --version autoclean
--compile --no-download --yes build-dep
--config-file --no-remove -b check
....
...
$ apt-get install foo<tab><tab>
fookb foomatic-bin foomatic-db-gimpprint
fookb-plainx foomatic-data
fookb-wmaker foomatic-db
$ apt-get install foo
Example #2:
$ ssh <tab><tab>
171.64.67.68 203.199.197.48 64.38.242.11 freeshells.org
171.64.67.72 209.15.95.192 66.54.4.34 gpasokan.com
192.168.1.1 24.26.85.231 av.stanford.edu suraj.sytes.net
203.197.130.30 63.194.20.32 symonds.net
$ ssh
Now is a GUI necessary? (-:
-Suraj
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