Mac OS X command line tab completion
The command line completion feature is turned on by default on Mac OS X systems, you only need to know how to use it.
When typing a command in the shell of a terminal window, you can simplify your life with the file/directory tab autocompletion feature. Consider that the current directory contains these two directories: Backup files, and Books. If you want to switch into the Backup Files directory, type:
where
A common problem in using command line interfaces on systems with graphical interfaces is that spaces in filenames, while simple in a GUI, complicate things in a command line because shells typically use a space to separate command line parameters. The shell is smart enough to place a backslash before a space in the subsequent autocompleted command line, so the finished command will become:
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