Auto Complete under AIX

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
1

How can one setup auto complete under AIX
when you type a path etc. by pressing a sequece of keys yu can complete the line.
Any sugestions !!!!

2

if your shell is ksh & you know vi.

set -o vi

3

I know nothing about the emacs editor (honest!), but when in emacs mode, you can auto-complete a file or command by hitting the Escape key twice. To get there, type "set -o emacs".

4

Thanks youve been a great help - it worked

5

Install BASH as ur shell...

You'll also have command-history available...

6

Is there no other way to get auto-complete and command history without installing BASH

7

Since I "grew up" without BASH and the benifits of
"auto-complete", I don't use it when using bash.
However, ksh fully supports history and using your
favorite editor (vi or emacs) for the command line
interface and browsing through your command history...

# from .profile file
export HISTSIZE=100
export EDITOR=vi

...give me a history of my last 100 commands (lines)
and allows me to use a vi like interface. For instance,
I ran a telnet command earlier with an IP address.
I want to get to that system again.
At the command line I press Esc then /telnet
and it will search ("/") my history for "telnet".
If I ran several telnets an I don't get the one in question
then I type /Enter and it searches again.
That's just one example.

I don't know (but I have heard rumors) that auto-complete
is available on ksh now but I cannot verify or deny this :cool:

8

Hi,
If you are using csh, try "set filec".

Thanks