Re: Need bash glob to be expanded and keep it ready in the readline

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 01:36:15PM +0700, Budi wrote:
> How can bash glob star is expanded and keep the cursor ready on the
> readline so that keep current command from being executed

You may use "C-x *" (i.e. "Ctrl + x" and then "*") to expand the
globbing pattern just left of the cursor.  This does not execute the
current line of input.

Example:

        $ touch file{1..20}
        $ rm file[0-9]

Assuming the current working directory was initially empty, pressing
"C-x *" after the "]" on the line above turns the line into

        $ rm file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 file8 file9

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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden

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