Monday, December 24, 2012

Command Prompt Auto Completion

If you are a UNIX user, it is probably well known that by pressing TAB in the terminal would perform auto completion for the file or folder name.

In windows however, the TAB auto completion was disabled (literally). By performing some modification in the registry, you could enable this features. Nonetheless, this could lead to error in reading txt file with TAB spacing.

There are alternative instead of using TAB key tho'. Microsoft has provided an article of this matter. Instead pressing TAB key, you could use CTRL+D or CTRL+F for both filename & folder auto completion. CTRL+F would let you choose a list of similar filenames in the folder by pressing the key a few times.

Happy trying :)

See also tricks for command prompt.

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