{"id":1705,"date":"2018-11-27T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T04:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-11-25T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:14:35","slug":"dev-tip-use-tabs-to-autocomplete-file-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2018\/11\/dev-tip-use-tabs-to-autocomplete-file-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Tip: Use Tabs to Autocomplete File Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Save your pair programming partner pain from watching you type out every letter in a file path.<br \/>\nUse tabs to auto complete the file paths!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/navigating_with_tabs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1706\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most commands support auto-completing file paths by inputting a few of the starting letters of the file path then hitting tabs.<br \/>\nThis works in DOS, PowerShell, and the terminal in Linux and MacOS.<\/p>\n<p>Protip: Create a custom alias to the directory that you&#8217;ll routinely navigate to.<br \/>\nMore info <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/17958567\/how-to-make-an-alias-for-a-long-path\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save your pair programming partner pain from watching you type out every letter in a file path. Use tabs to auto complete the file paths! Most commands support auto-completing file paths by inputting a few of the starting letters of the file path then hitting tabs. This works in DOS, PowerShell, and the terminal in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2018\/11\/dev-tip-use-tabs-to-autocomplete-file-paths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dev Tip: Use Tabs to Autocomplete File Paths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[338,341],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-terminal","tag-use-tabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}