Ubuntu tab autocompletion like PowerShell

Question

For me PowerShell tab auto-completion is much better than my Terminal console in Linux. Is there a way to configure this?

For example

usr@Ubuntu:~/esp/esp-idf$ ls -ahl
drwxrwxr-x 16 usr usr 4.0K Sep 11 19:57 examples
-rw-rw-r--  1 usr usr 2.1K Sep 11 19:57 export.bat
-rw-rw-r--  1 usr usr 2.5K Sep 11 19:57 export.fish
-rw-rw-r--  1 usr usr 2.8K Sep 11 19:57 export.ps1
-rw-rw-r--  1 usr usr 4.9K Sep 11 19:57 export.sh
usr@Ubuntu:~/esp/esp-idf$ cd port       <tab> -->
usr@Ubuntu:~/esp/esp-idf$ cd export.bat   <tab> -->
usr@Ubuntu:~/esp/esp-idf$ cd export.fish

In powershell I can do cd ex <tab> and it will autocomplete with the first one of the list, then I can press <tab> agan and it will change it to the second of the list. I can also do cd *ex*sh and it will find something that matches that. It can go even further and do cd es*/es*/ex*.sh <tab> and it will auto-complete to cd esp/esp-idf/export.sh

My memory is really bad and I don't remember the exact case sensitive name of all directories, but I have an idea of what they contain, so for me that autocompletion is really fast and useful

It's not the same but do you know about using two tabs in succession? — Chris Davies, Sep 17 '20 at 08:45
Does this answer your question? Is it possible for bash completion to cycle through the alternatives? — Chris Davies, Sep 17 '20 at 08:45
Thanks @roaima - that answer is already a great improvement! :) — Carlos Garcia, Sep 17 '20 at 08:52
You might also want to look into other shells. I believe both fish and zsh do what you want out of the box. — terdon, Sep 17 '20 at 12:32

Ubuntu tab autocompletion like PowerShell

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