How to autocomplete or find file with special character almost impossible to type?

Question

In bash, I make use of the autocomplete with TAB feature a lot, and sometimes I have filenames starting with special characters that I can't type with my default keyboard layout.

My question is, how can I find a filename starting with a character which is almost impossible to type with an English keyboard? For example, if the filename starts with a Japanese character, like ファイル.txt that might be difficult to type with an English keyboard. Sure, I can find the filename by its extension but what if it does not contain any Latin character at all?

This becomes even more difficult without a graphical environment in which I can easily select the filename and copy from it.

If isn't possible to get a solution similar to the TAB autocomplete, how could I find this kind of filenames easily?

I already read this question but has no accepted answer, also I don't know Japanese to input kanjis or similar.

Answer 1

You might be able to use the builtin bindings for the readline completion functions seen with:

$ bind -p | grep glob
"\eg":   glob-complete-word
"\C-x*": glob-expand-word
"\C-xg": glob-list-expansions

You can then type some globbing characters (* and ?) and have them expanded into the line with Ctrl-x*, or just listed with the other commands.