Terminal command for OS X

[Signal-11]

Works in Windows too. Has for as long as I can remember.

Er... Maybe as long as YOU can remember but I definitely remember the days when DOS didn't have tab completion. I think it was with NT that cmd came out of the box with tab completion.

No, it is to do with the shell you are using. Leopard might use an old version of Bash or it may not be configured correctly.

It's a config issue. Terminal, OOB, should be configured for tab completion.

Customizing tab completion behaviour is something that all command line geeks will eventually end up dumping hours of time into.

 

[jtara]

Works in Ubuntu 8.04 also.

Oh. Well, *I* didn't know that, thanks!

Actually, I run Kubuntu (uses KDE, rather than Gnome) but it works there as well.

Linux users, I think, tend to rely on the shell much more, so may not know all the desktop tricks like this.

Not sure when I'd actually use this, though, since I use Krusader as my file browser, and you can easily open a terminal window on a particular directory from there. (You can do this in Finder as well, though not quite as nicely as from Krusader.)

 

[Steve-M]

Works in Windows too. Has for as long as I can remember.

I did not know that.

 

[RaceTripper]

Er... Maybe as long as YOU can remember but I definitely remember the days when DOS didn't have tab completion. I think it was with NT that cmd came out of the box with tab completion.

Er...my comment wasn't about tab completion. It was in response to comments about dragging a file/folder to the shell window to paste the path. That has worked since at least Windows 2000, if not before.

And...er...I didn't say DOS. I was referring to Windows operating systems. Not DOS operating systems.

 

[Signal-11]

Er...my comment wasn't about tab completion. It was in response to comments about dragging a file/folder to the shell window to paste the path. That has worked since at least Windows 2000, if not before.

And...er...I didn't say DOS. I was referring to Windows operating systems. Not DOS operating systems.

Ah, gotcha. My bad.

Nice avatar.

 

[RaceTripper]

Nice avatar.

Thanks. The T-shirt is better.