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

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> 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

That's the emacs mode binding.  For vi mode, it's ESC * (or more precisely,
it's simply * while you're in command mode, which you get to by pressing
ESC typically).

Just in case the OP (or anyone else who's reading this) is using vi mode.