On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:42 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > I regularly create new zfs filesystems or snapshots and I find it > annoying that I have to type the full dataset name in all of those cases. > > I propose we allow zfs(1) to infer the part of the dataset name upto the > current working directory. For example: > > Today: > > $ zfs create cube/builds/darrenm/bugs/6724478 > > With this proposal: > > $ pwd > /cube/builds/darrenm/bugs > $ zfs create 6724478 > > Both of these would result in a new dataset cube/builds/darrenm/6724478
I find this annoying as well. Another way that would help (but is fairly orthogonal to your suggestion) would be to write a completion module for zsh/bash/whatever that could <tab>-complete options to the z* commands including zfs filesystems. -M _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
