[rescue] ksh q...

Reagen B. Ward rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Sep 14 17:26:27 CDT 2001


Brian Harrington wrote:
> --On Friday, September 14, 2001 1:21 PM -0500 Patrick Giagnocavo
> <patrick at www2.zill.net> wrote:
> 
> > under OpenBSD, the ksh shell will expand a path for you when you press
> > TAB.  Eg, if the path is /usr/sbin/local , I might type /usr/sb TAB
> > loc TAB and the shell will expand the rest on each TAB.
> > 
> > How do I turn this feature on in other ksh's such as those found on
> > IRIX and Sol8 boxen?
> 
> You install pdksh. :-)  "Real" ksh uses EscEsc in emacs mode, and Esc\ in
> vi mode for filename completion.  Tab completion is a pdksh extension.

Not to be overly pedantic (well, ok, overly pedantic), but pdksh is far 
from being real ksh.  I would suggest installing AT&T if installing a new
ksh.  If David Korn says pdksh is not complete, I believe him.

Reagen



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