[NhanH]

Tab autocomplete will show everything, and showing a screen full of name is not particularly useful. Most of the time I use ls it's something like "ls (asterisk)foo(asterisk)".

How do I escape asterisk on HN? :O

[joepvd]

In zsh, you can complete a glob.

[joombaga]

bash too

[throwanem]

But if there are multiple candidate completions, you don't get a list of them, the way you do from <tab> <tab> with no glob - it just completes unconditionally to the first candidate.

[schoen]

Edit: I had a guess about how to escape asterisks here, and it didn't work!

[nvdk]

You can so the same with tab . Eg foo/(asterisk)bar<tab><tab>