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Asked: 2018-06-11 06:47:24 +0800 CST

Is there a way to make the bash auto-complete show a list with line for each entry?

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when I want to see the content of a dir I use ~/ + Tab and it shows me 

.bashrc.swp           .gitconfig            .local/   ...

Is there a way to make the results separated by newlines?

i.e. 

.bashrc.swp 
.gitconfig
.local/   ...
bash auto-completion

1 Answers

  1. bind 'set completion-display-width 0'

    If you run this in the shell, it will affect the current session. If you want it to affect all sessions, put it at the end of your ~/.bashrc.

    Or you can put this line in your ~/.inputrc:

    set completion-display-width 0

    Source and more details: Grisha Levit's answer on this Stack Overflow question

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