On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My thought. While you are typing a command with a partial Unix file > name, leave the cursor at the end of the file name and press a PF key. > The routine would open a popup window with a list of possible > matches. You could select a option by tabbing to the line with the > desired match and pressing enter, or alter the search argument and > pressing enter to search again. Would work very much like ISPF 3.4 or > the mentioned directory listing. > In a "true" shell environment (not TSO OMVS), The BASH shell does this with the TAB key (I guess in TSO OMVS, this would be a ctrl-i, using the TSO OMVS "escape" character to emulate the ctrl key press). If you use the standard /bin/sh in z/OS UNIX, and do a "set -o vi", then if there exists at least one file name which matches the prefix you entered, a Ctrl-\ (^\) will either: (1) extend the name with the remaining characters in the unique name or; (2) extend the remaining shared characters in the set of possibly matching names. In case #2, with BASH, hitting the TAB key a second time will show all matching names, letting you type in some more characters, then TAB again. Unfortunately, /bin/sh does _NOT_ help in this situation. Which is why I often have _TWO_ shell prompts up in separate windows. One with my command, and another to do an "ls" command to see which file name I want. I then cut from the "ls" window and paste into the other window which contains my command. -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
