[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Sep 5 22:35:53 UTC 2005


On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Daniel P. Berrange gibbered uncontrollably:
> [1] Even I was truely astonished to see bash now tab-completes against
>     *remote* filenames when entering an argument to scp !!!!

The bash-completion package has been able to do this for a *long* time.
It can also complete ssh hostnames (non-hashed known_hosts only), and,
well, just about anything else you can think of, and has a plugin
system so you can add local stuff easily.

It's cool, and grossly overdesigned. :)

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