Unix and C Shell

[htmlmasterdave]

I'm using putty to ssh to a SunOS 5.8 machine using C shell, and I was wondering if it's possible to have autocomplete like in linux where you hit tab and it will complete your command as far as it knows how?

TIA 🙂

 

[rmrf]

I'm not familiar with the c shell, but if you use bash, I'm pretty sure it will work.

 

[cleverhandle]

It's possible, but it's been a long time since I did it. My book said that "set filec" should do it, except that the completion key is Esc instead of Tab. But that didn't seem to work. Definitely possible, though.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Well I was wondering how to do it more than if it was possible, lol 🙂 SunOS 5.8 is quite old....

 

[CTho9305]

cst@tau~% uname -a
SunOS tau.ece.cmu.edu 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc
cst@tau~% env |grep SHELL
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh

tab completion works in tcsh. Any reason you need to use csh instead?

 

[Sunner]

Im not csh user, but have a look at OpenBSD's manpages.
csh is the default shell, and OpenBSD's documentation tends to be extremely good, so I'd be surprised if it isn't in there.

 

[jonmullen]

set filec is what you need...now I dont know if you need to set it too something out what but that sould be it.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

set filec doesn't do anything on NetBSD's csh.

 

[jonmullen]

are you using <escape> I looked it up in the OpenBSD doc's and thats what it said it needed.