Command line auto complete

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  1. malmjako

    malmjako

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    Is there a way to get more extended auto completion on the command line, like Ubuntu has it? E.g. when trying to install packages with yum, I would like to be able to get the package names completed by pressing tab.
     
    malmjako, Oct 6, 2008
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    Install the package bash-completion
     
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    Thanks! That seems to work. Any way to speed up completion of yum packages?
     
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    No problem.

    No. The programmable bash completion:

    http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_103.html

    for yum using the command:

    Code:
    yum -C list
    to get a complete list of packages from the cache. This is very slow- try it from the command line. So unless we can find quicker command to list all packages, you just have to live with the speed.
     
    cpchan, Oct 8, 2008
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