[ale] Surprised by tab expansion

[Jim Kinney]

You! Back in your lumberjack outfit! Get out of that comfy chair!

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Nobody expects the Expansion Inquisition...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Freemyer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:23 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Surprised by tab expansion
>
> All,
>
> I've been doing tab expansion for a long time, but today I could only
> remember the middle portion of a dir name.
>
> So I typed "cd /..../*123*/"
>
> I then hit tab even though I was sure it would not work.  Instead my *
> chars were replaced by the correct data.  Very cool.
>
> Greg
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