I have some AIX 7 servers that are restricted to what software I can install and wonder if I can get ksh to use the tab key to complete filenames at the shell promot.
The man pages are sparse for ksh and I don't see any relevant questions here covering this ground. Due to the majority of users using ksh, I'm hesitant to shift my shell to bash – but I suppose that's an easy out.
I log in initially from a PC using putty/ssh and work mostly from xterm once the X11 forwarding brings back the traffic to Hummingbird Exceed on the PC.
Can /usr/bin/ksh that ships with bos.rte.shell for AIX 7.1 be configured to trigger filename completion (which is normally triggered by pressing ESC+\ ) by pressing the TAB key?
Best Answer
See if
/usr/bin/ksh93is available:If it says
then use that as your interactive shell. It will have the ${.sh.version} and should have the TAB expansion.