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Just type one or several letters from the command you are searching for. Each

character you enter narrows down the search. The corresponding search result

is shown on the right side of the colon whereas your input appears on the left of

the colon. To accept a search result, press [Esc]. The prompt now changes to its

normal appearance and shows the command you chose. You can now edit the

command or directly execute it by pressing [Enter].

Completion

Completing a lename or directory name to its full length after typing its rst

letters is another helpful feature of Bash. To do so, type the rst letters then press

[→|] (Tabulator). If the lename or path can be uniquely identied, it is completed

at once and the cursor moves to the end of the lename. You can then enter the

next option of the command, if necessary. If the lename or path cannot be

uniquely identied (because there are several lenames starting with the same

letters), the lename or path is only completed up to the point where it becomes

ambiguous again. You can then obtain a list of them by pressing [→|] a second

time. After this, you can enter the next letters of the le or path then try comple-

tion again by pressing [→|]. When completing lenames and paths with the help

of [→|], you can simultaneously check whether the le or path you want to enter

really exists (and you can be sure of getting the spelling right).

Wild Cards

You can replace one or more characters in a lename with a wild card for path-

name expansion. Wild cards are characters that can stand for other characters.

There are three dierent types of these in Bash:

FunctionWild Card

Matches exactly one arbitrary character

Matches any number of characters

Matches one of the characters from the group specied

inside the square brackets, which is represented here by

the string

set

[

set

]

7.6.1 Examples For Using History, Completion and Wildcards

The following examples illustrate how to make use of these convenient features of

Bash.

Procedure 7.6 Using History and Completion

If you already did the example Section 7.3.1, “Examples for Working with Files and

Directories” (page 91) your shell buer should be lled with commands which you

can retrieve using the history function.

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