How to Enable and Disable TAB option in Shell?

[gsiva]

Hi,

I would like to know how to Enable and Disable the TAB option in Shell...

[meton_magis]

there is a way to change variables for the readline library. i havent read into it in a long time, but i belive if you do this is should fix it.

$ cat /etc/inputrc | egrep -vi disable-completion > ~/.inputrc
$ echo "set disable-completion on" >> ~/.inputrc


What it is doing is changing the variable "disable-completion" to on. you have to copy the /etc/inputrc to your home directory so that you will retain all other system values (that your probably used to)

NOTE that this is the default for fedora, if you have a different distro (redhat enterprise should be the same) or changed the defaults, this wont work.

for more information, see
man bash
man readline

also note, that i dont have my linux system with me, so some of this may be a bit off, since i can't test it, and it's been a while since i've hacked around with the readline variables.

[gsiva]

Thank you.... Let me check with your suggestion.