How and Why to Log Your Bash History

Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by NhanH on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:23PM (#11807476)

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

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Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by joepvd on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:33PM (#11807548)

In zsh, you can complete a glob.

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Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by joombaga on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:41PM (#11808356)

bash too

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Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by throwanem on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:34PM (#11809469)

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.

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Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by schoen on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:40PM (#11807612)

Edit: I had a guess about how to escape asterisks here, and it didn't work!

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Re:How and Why to Log Your Bash History by nvdk on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:41PM (#11807633)

You can so the same with tab . Eg foo/(asterisk)bar<tab><tab>

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