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#3 Re: An introduction to bash completion: part 1 Posted by yeti (84.133.xx.xx) on Sat 24 Dec 2005 at 20:47 Sometimes this luxury drives me crazy... If I have a tar file not named with suffix .tar and I type "tar xvf filenamebeginning<tab>", what will happen? Same effect for many other extension driven suggestions or completions... It is very usefull to know, that if I type "\tar" instead of "tar", command completion will not happen at all. Even if "tar was aliased, "\tar" will override this IIRC... But now for something (not really) completely different... Another nice frature for small functions or big screens is the way functions are "completed". Try "function _mc<tab><tab>". You can edit the function with bash's commandline editor and even rename the function name. Similar for aliases. Assume having aliased "ll" to somethig obvious then "alias ll=<tab>" gives the alias definition als editable line...

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