Re: suggested minor improvement to ssh argument parsing

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On Mon 2008-03-31 08:41:11 -0400, John Vincent wrote:

> I use "ssh" often, and within bash I find it useful to define the IP
> address in "/etc/hosts" and then use the bash auto-complete feature
> for the hsot name. For this to work bash needs to see a "@" in front
> of the host name. This works perfectly for a command like "ssh
> user@host". However if I want to use the current user by default, I
> can't get the bash to auto complete the hostname.

If anything, this sounds like an improvement that could be made to
bash's host autocompletion for ssh, rather than something that should
be changed in ssh itself.

On a debian lenny system, if i enable bash completion [0], it actually
does clean tab completion for hostnames based on the contents of
~/.ssh/config. Since this is a file under user control (as opposed to
/etc/hosts, which should only be under sysadmin control), it's
probably a better strategy anyway.

What version of bash (and what distro) are you using? what's in your
~/.ssh/config?

--dkg

[0] on debian lenny, you can turn on bash completion functionality with:

. /etc/bash_completion

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