Can plain sh do tab completion?

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Swapjim

Well, I'm pressing the TAB key and nothing happens :p

set -o also doesn't give anything relative to tab completion.

Does sh(1) have tab completion or not? And if yes, how do I enable it?

(I know that tcsh(1) has tab completion. It's working fine.)
 
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Swapjim said:
Well, I'm pressing the TAB key and nothing happens :p

set -o also doesn't give anything relative to tab completion.

Does sh have tab completion or not? And if yes, how do I enable it?

(I know that tcsh has tab completion. It's working fine.)
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sh()

My man on OpenBSD machine has this paragraph

Code: 
  vi-tabcomplete  In vi command-line editing, do command and file
                                       name completion when tab (^I) is  entered                  
                                      in insert mode.
 
Oko said:
sh()

My man on OpenBSD machine has this paragraph

Code: 
  vi-tabcomplete  In vi command-line editing, do command and file
                                       name completion when tab (^I) is  entered               
                                      in insert mode.
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sh(1) on OpenBSD is really just pdksh. To quote OpenBSD's man page:
NOTES
sh is implemented as a run-time option of pdksh, with only those sh fea-
tures whose syntax or semantics are incompatible with a traditional
Bourne shell disabled. Since this leaves some sh extensions exposed,
caution should be used where backwards compatibility with traditional
Bourne or POSIX compliant shells is an issue.
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As far as I'm aware, sh(1) does not have tab command completion.
 
protocelt said:
sh(1) on OpenBSD is really just pdksh.
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Are you 100% sure about that? Of course I am aware that I am using pdksh which is also default for root account but I would swear that I also have Bourne shell for scripts. Please see



Code: 
predrag@oko$ man sh
SH(1)  General Commands Manual  SH(1)

NAME
  sh - public domain Bourne shell

SYNOPSIS
  sh [-+abCefhiklmnpruvXx] [-+o option]
  [-c string | -s | file [argument ...]]

Code: 
predrag@oko$ man ksh
KSH(1)  General Commands Manual  KSH(1)

NAME
  ksh - public domain Korn shell

SYNOPSIS
  ksh [-+abCefhiklmnpruvXx] [-+o option]
  [-c string | -s | file [argument ...]]

and I personally write scripts in shells/ksh93
 
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