another #linux question if I may: 'nhow do you deal with long and complex folder paths in the terminal?

[kaia@brotka.st]

another #linux question if I may:
how do you deal with long and complex folder paths in the terminal?

./Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (PMHNP-BC)/
./Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (PMHNP-BC) Test Book 2025/

[mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe]

@kaia Type the start, then use ↹ Tab for completion?

[kaia@brotka.st]

@mezzodrinker but there are two, it won't autocomplete in bash

[hiddenalpha@mastodon.social]

@kaia
Glob patterns can be handy too:

echo Psy*Test*

echo Psy*BC?

Same works for any command. Like with cd:

cd Psy*BC?

In my example "*" stands for several chars and "?" says here's exactly one char. shell globs have some more features like sequences, sets etc.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@kaia @mezzodrinker you can configure the shell to autocomplete the common part on first tab