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Re: Bash complete (tab) slowdown?


At 02:17 PM 5/31/2002, QQ wrote:
>Greetings.
>
>I'm truly sorry if this was already
>answered, but I really tried searching
>for it - with no luck.
>
>My problem is this: when using bash's
>complete feature (eg hitting tab key),
>bash starts thrashing my hd pretty
>hard, and results appears only after
>quite a time. This could be normal,
>but problem is, that under tcsh
>results appear immediately and without
>any thrashing at all.
>
>Where could the problem lie?

Yes, this is normal.  Hitting the tab key in bash searches for all executables
that match what you've typed so far.  If you haven't typed anything, it 
searches for all executables in your path.  This can take some time.

As for why this doesn't happen in tcsh, I can't say.  I don't know anything
about tcsh.




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