Command-line completion

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In Windows, command line completion has the lovely feature of expanding 
files prepended with a dot before the actual filename.
So if while I'm editing foo.pl, I type

    perl f<TAB>

it gets expanded to

    perl .foo.pl.swp

Obviously, this feature is great for people who like to run Vim swap files.

In case I'm not being even-handed in my hate, I also hate that bash 
doesn't expand a file when there are alternatives.  Sure, I could ls and 
then work out which characters to type to disambiguate, but why can't I 
just repeatedly press <TAB> like a simpleton and have it do the right 
thing?  (I guess this being Unix there will be some simple config change 
to make the hate go away though).

Sincerely, in hate,
osfameron

• Command-line completion Hakim 17:26 on 01 Feb 2005
  • Re: Command-line completion Jason Diamond 17:48 on 01 Feb 2005
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  • Abigail 20:01 on 01 Feb 2005
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  • Dave Vandervies 03:24 on 02 Feb 2005
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  • peter (Peter da Silva) 22:13 on 02 Feb 2005
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