Re: Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-29 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote: > That's just for starters. Install the bash-completion package, > un-comment the code in ~/.bashrc following the "enable programmable > completion features" comment, and start a new shell. > > Now when you start typing and press

Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/28 20:40 "The Wanderer" : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 09/28/2014 at 07:17 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > On 9/27/14, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the > >> appropriate apt-get commands up from history

Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/28 20:17 "Cindy-Sue Causey" : > > On 9/27/14, Joel Rees wrote: > > Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the appropriate > > apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?) > > > > Had a bunch of unicode proxies and a reference to a backup directory that > > I have

Re: Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I do A LOT of computing from terminals... and use arrow up and down > ALL THE TIME.. Autocomplete would so ROCK! "Tab completion" is the key phrase. Assuming you use bash: When you want to complete a command or filename, press the Tab key. If the choices are ambiguous, you'll need to press Tab

Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/28/2014 at 07:17 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/27/14, Joel Rees wrote: > >> Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the >> appropriate apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?) >> >> Had a bunch of unicode

Re: funny text in bash history

2014-09-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/27/14, Joel Rees wrote: > Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the appropriate > apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?) > > Had a bunch of unicode proxies and a reference to a backup directory that > I haven't accessed in several months in my most recent thr