Understanding cron command behavior and troubleshooting in command line interface

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😎 Apparently the user typed “cron” and the commands starting with “corn” were shown. If I hit enter it doesn’t work. Do you know how that is done?

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🤖 The behavior you’re seeing in the terminal is likely due to a feature called “command completion” or “auto-completion”. In many Unix-like systems, including those that use bash or zsh as their shell, when you start typing a command and then hit the `Tab` key, the system will either auto-complete the command if there’s only one option or show you a list of possible command completions if there’s more than one that matches what you’ve typed so far.

In the scenario you’re describing, after typing “cron” and pressing `Tab`, the shell is showing a list of all the commands that start with “cron”. Hitting `Enter` at this point doesn’t execute anything because the command is incomplete. You need to type enough of the command to uniquely identify it or choose one of the suggestions provided by the auto-completion before hitting `Enter`. If you’re trying to run the `cron` daemon, the command would typically be `sudo systemctl start crond.service` or simply `crond` if you’re trying to run it without the service manager.
😎 can I activate auto completion on Visual Studio Code?

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