Getting more helpful tab completion prompts in bash?
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Let's say I have a directory with a few files in it like this:
$ ls
file1 file2 file3
And I want to do some tab completion in bash:
$ cat file<tab>
file1 file2 file3
I remember seeing someone doing tab completion and the shell bolded the next parts, so in this case, it would bold the 1
, 2
and 3
of the filename so it'll look like this:
file**1** file**2** file**3**
which will tell you what you should type in next.
I think this was a feature of zsh
, but is there any way to get it in bash
?
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