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When typing in the Linux command line, just use TAB to autocomplete commands, filenames or folder names. Simply start typing. When you’re ready press Tab.
What is Tab command?
Description. The tab command reads the file specified by the File parameter or standard input, and replaces spaces in the input with tab characters wherever the tab command can eliminate one or more spaces. … If the input is standard input, the tab command writes to standard output.
What happens if I type Tab Tab?
If we are talking about shells like bashzsh, so you type TAB-TAB it will enable built in “completion” function. Most shells allow command completion, typically bound to the TAB key, which allow you to complete the names of commands stored upon your PATH, file names, or directory names.
