Tab to Auto-Complete + ....

[Daniel Bye]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote:
> What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to autcomplete 
> a name to work?  It works fine in root .. also when i press the up or down 
> arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ... 
> 
> im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE

What shell are you using?  I guess you haven't installed any shells from
ports yet, and are using the system default, /bin/sh, which doesn't
support autocomplete or command history.  The root shell is csh, which
does have such things.  So, either set your user's shell to be
/bin/tcsh, or install one of the several shells in ports.

HTH

Dan

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