Equivalent of PSReadLine for bash (or whatever linux shell) as you type

tux_tina

I'm aware of this question Equivalent of PSReadLine for bash But sadly it is still not close enough for me, all of the suggestions requires to press either tab, or ctrl + r or whatever, while Powershell made it really simple, just type and you see a list, keep typing to filter more, if you found a matching history command, just press down ! That's it. Here is a video EDIT: I already tried all the suggestions in the question mentioned. I also...

Originally asked by Nour on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Not aware of any bash scripts that do that; I think bash's abilities to customize what is shown are limiting there. But honestly, you're a user coming from Windows, nothing forces you to use bash ; you can use the more feature-complete zsh (install via apt install zsh , as you seem to be on Ubuntu); scripts can still be run with bash, but you can make your default interactive shell zsh . And for zsh , there's quite popular plugins that do things that you describe! I'd set this all up in one fell swoop, including the whole oh-my-zsh plugin bundle, because I bet the next thing you ask is how to get autocompletion for git, or a more information-rich prompt. So here I go: #!/bin/bash # This is...

Full answer by Marcus Müller: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/778852 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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