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I'm using GNU Bash 4.2.5 with fedora 18.

Whenever I'm typing something into the shell say 

pe<tab>

I get an annoying error sound, I then have to press tab again to view the auto-complete suggestions, I was wondering if it's possible to make it so that instead of throwing me an error the first time and making a bell/ping sound, it directly prints auto complete suggestions the first time I hit tab.

I still want to have the "Display all 172 possibilities?[y/N]" like warnings available.

I don't know how I can customize bash behaviour so, since I've never attempted something like this before, so please bear with me.

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Basic customization of bash's completion behavior can be performed by modifying various readline variables in ~/.inputrc. See the bash(1) man page, READLINE section, Readline Variables subsection, for details.

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