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When the patch command doesn't find the file to patch, it asks for a filename.

Is there any way to get this to use tab complete?

jasonwryan
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Try

rlwrap -c patch -i patch.diff

rlwrap tries do add readline functionality to commands that lack it. There exists a couple of alternatives to rlwrap. If you're a zsh user, you may also have a look at Using zsh's line editor to wrap around subprocesses and at /usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc/nslookup for an example of how to add the zsh line editor to a command.

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