[ILUG] SSH

[Feargal Reilly]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:25:29 +0100
bobb <bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
  
> I found something cool (and a little scary) recently with the
> default completion script for bash, if you have ssh keys and
> agent and stuff setup between machines you can do something
> like ``scp machine:/foo/bar<TAB>'' and it will automatically
> log in, get a directory listing, and complete to ``scp
> machine:/foo/bar.txt'' or whatever....

Are you sure?

For the purposes of auto-completion, bash treats an un-escaped
(in-escaped? imprisoned? caped???) full-colon as a terminator
for an argument so anything following it is treated as a new
argument. If you have a file called "foo:bar" and type 
"vim foo:<TAB>", bash will present your current directory listing
instead of completing to "foo:bar"; you would need to type
"foo\:<TAB>" instead, or simply "foo<TAB>".
"gobbledigook:/e" will complete to "gobbledigook:/etc".

What bash does do with relation to ssh is that it'll read your
known_hosts file and use the hostnames as candidates. If
you have dagda.tuatha.org in your known_hosts, and type
"dag<TAB>", bash will fill it in for you. Which is nice.

AFAIK, it does not behave as you described - what you're seeing
is your local filesystem. I may be completely wrong, if so,
please enlighten me.

-fr.

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