Enabling auto-complete in QNX terminal

QNX USERS QNX6 - OS
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I recently installed QNX Neutrino RTOS from the 6.3.2 Momentics CD.

I noticed that there is no auto-complete on the shell prompt (terminal window) in the Photon GUI.

How can I enable the auto-complete. As you may know it is very cumbersome to type commands.

2

There is ESC-ESC if that is what you mean?

3

Thanks for the reply. The ESC-ESC that you mentioned answers a part of my question. My understanding is that ESC-ESC just completes the command but it is not forward looking. For example, if I just want to see the contents of the /root directory without actually “cd”-ing into it, I cannot do it.

ls /root (Now if I press ESC-ESC it won’t show me the output)

The feature that I am talking about is the same which is there in all Linux Distributions and also on UNIX systems.

4

That feature is not available. It is most probably a feature of the shell ( bash maybe ), it should be possible to install bash under QNX6 ( never done it myself ).

5

really? it works for me - ls /bin/l?

6

Based on suggestion of Mario, I installed bash and I was able to get the feature that I was looking for. cburgess, not sure what shell are you using?

7

Well you learn something everyday :wink:

Thanks Colin.

8

Actually autocompletion will work, but not showing the possible values for autocompletion if there are more than one.
At least not in the default shell with default setup.

9

With ? it does how all possible values, and as far as I know I’m using the default setup.

10

Yes, I am seeing the exactly same behavior.