How to autocomplete at the Korn shell command line with the vi editor

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Published on 2008-09-17T08:10:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 6:03 UTC
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In the Korn shell on AIX UNIX Version 5.3 with the editor mode set to vi using:

set -o vi

What are the key-strokes at the shell command line to autocomplete a file or directory name ?

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