(Emphasis mine) Why do you think it exists? Even cmd.exe has that featureWell, maybe. But I am probably not the only one who finds it tedious to do:
"tar xvf foo-ver-9778-lin-src-2.3.8.7777-new-svn-daily-18052007-dev.tar.gz"
(Although bash's tab-complete feature gets around that somewhat)
