Tab completion in Ubuntu Bash (in WSL)

This is for people, like me, who come from ten years of Windows PowerShell, and are more an more using Linux (through the Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Here is a snippet from the bash manual. The search terms of interest are "completing" and "tab". The main section to read is "completing", which starts like this:

On my keyboard, the M- means ESC, so M-? means the key combination ESC-? (press escape and then question mark).

We can bind keys from bash with bind TAB:menu-complete (for example). We can run that directly or put it in our ~/.bashrc file.

References

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/bash.1.html

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