> Small change, saves a lot of annoyment, and new linux users should learn
> the power of the <tab> key. 

I agree with you but in a larger sense, in that the learning to use
the tab key (which is an action key to initiate some sort of
completion in the instance you're talking about) is a first step to
understanding the shell's features. If you are using csh, the tab key
is just a tab, there is no completion. I happen to use zsh, which has
programmable completion (bash does too), and comes with many useful
builtin completions. For example... if i run ssh and start the name of
a host... zsh checks /etc/hosts and will complete hosts it finds
there. It can also complete command line options and a zillion other
things.

I'm not sure that teaching people the features of the shell is a topic
for the blfs book, but it is very important...

Mike
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