Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Using Completion in the `ksh` Shell

ksh is another shell that offers command completion. You type part of a command, press twice, and ksh completes the command for you (see Code Listing 3.12). Using command completion in ksh isn’t as easy as it is in zsh or bash, but the results are the same.

Code Listing 3.12. After listing the files and directories, we set our options, then successfully completed a command. The `^[^[` is how appears on the screen when the shell doesn’t know to use it to complete commands.

$ ls
Complete NewProject bogus2 files
→ public_html testme
Completed    News    chat.conf
→ ftp   puppy
Mail access dead.letter
→ mail  temp
$    cd pub^[^[ ...

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Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide by Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray

Using Completion in the `ksh` Shell

Code Listing 3.12. After listing the files and directories, we set our options, then successfully completed a command. The `^[^[` is how appears on the screen when the shell doesn’t know to use it to complete commands.

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Using Completion in the ksh Shell

Code Listing 3.12. After listing the files and directories, we set our options, then successfully completed a command. The ^[^[ is how appears on the screen when the shell doesn’t know to use it to complete commands.

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Using Completion in the `ksh` Shell

Code Listing 3.12. After listing the files and directories, we set our options, then successfully completed a command. The `^[^[` is how appears on the screen when the shell doesn’t know to use it to complete commands.