On 1/18/10 9:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > Suppose I have 'some.sh' in my command line, and my cursor is at '.' > > $some.sh > > Suppose there is only one command that start with 'some', which is > 'something.sh'. After I type TAB, I will have 'something.sh.sh' in my > command line. > > $something.sh.sh > > I'm wondering if there is a way to configure bash, so that I will get > 'something.sh' rather than 'something.sh.sh'.
There is nothing directly analogous in bash. The closest thing is the `skip-completed-text' readline variable in bash-4.1/readline-6.1, but that will not help in this case. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/