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Topic: Apt-get <tab>, how does that work?

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Kuro

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Posted: April 15 2004,18:58

How is it that when you type "apt-get install (first few letters of a package)<tab>" when running bash under rxvt, it can complete a package name? How is that implemented? I have many people wondering how that works, as it is a very useful feature. Thank you in advance.

guille

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Posted: April 15 2004,19:50

What I know is that if you are in a console (root or not) if you type one or more keys and then press tab it shows you the list of command beggining with that leter/s and if there are a lot of them display and advice, something like:
"the keys you have pressed will show xxxxx commands do you like see? ((y/n)
For seeing a list of stuff with apt-get I type apt-cache search xxxx being in root mode
Cheers!

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Grim

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Posted: April 16 2004,08:39

Quote (Kuro @ April 15 2004,12:58)

Command line completion is part of the shell, not actually part of apt or rxvt. The shell, in this case, is Ash, provided by the busybox utility.

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