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Tab autocomplete will show everything, and showing a screen full of name is not particularly useful. Most of the time I use ls it's something like "ls (asterisk

by NhanH 10y ago

Tab autocomplete will show everything, and showing a screen full of name is not particularly useful. Most of the time I use ls it's something like "ls (asterisk)foo(asterisk)". How do I escape asterisk on HN? :O

joepvd 10y ago
In zsh, you can complete a glob.
- joombaga 10y ago
  bash too
  - throwanem 10y ago
    But if there are multiple candidate completions, you don't get a list of them, the way you do from <tab> <tab> with no glob - it just completes unconditionally to the first candidate.
schoen 10y ago
Edit: I had a guess about how to escape asterisks here, and it didn't work!
nvdk 10y ago
You can so the same with tab . Eg foo/(asterisk)bar<tab><tab>