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Helpful keyboard shortcuts in the terminal

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Helpful keyboard shortcuts in the terminal

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- [Narrator] Before we move on to more specific commands. There's a few other helpful things to know about working with commands at the command line. The first is tab completion. Tab completion is a feature of the Bash shell and many other shells too. And it lets us skip typing out a whole file name or directory name when we're working at the command line. It looks at all the information available to it and makes a guess about what we mean. For example, I can type LS dash L capital D, lowercase E and press tab. And the shell completes the line with desktop because desktop is a directory in the current working directory, my home directory. I'll press control C to cancel this command. Now I'll type LS dash L capital D, lowercase O and we'll press tab. Hmm, nothing. That's because tab doesn't have one clear suggestion to return. You can press tab again. And now I see a list of possibilities, documents and downloads…

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