auto tab complete

Fri Aug 22 18:02:00 GMT 2003

That's what I was fishing for.
and the comment about sh and cmd not supporting it was exactly what I was wondering (I just didn't know it yet :) ).
"shell at home is bash with completion set up" - I guess my next question is what did you have to do to set it up besides just using the executable?
andrew brian clegg wrote:
>> Tab completion is a facility of the shell running on the remote computer
> surely, nothing to do with ssh itself.
>> e.g. I ssh into my home PC from work and I get tab completion, because my
> shell at home is bash with completion set up. This would also be the case
> if I were to use telnet or rlogin to connet.
>> If it was sh or cmd.exe I wouldn't, regardless of whether I used ssh or
> telnet or rlogin, because sh and cmd.exe don't support it.
>> Or am I misunderstanding the question?
>> Andrew.
>> On 2003年8月22日, jwaterbrook wrote:
>> > does the ssh executable support it? It won't even work for it.
> >
> > Vince Hoffman wrote:
> > > To the best of my knowledge the sftp executable doesnt support tab
> > > completion.
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