[Nottingham] ssh and tab autocomplete in BASH

[J]

Well that's weird, a grep of the entire filesystem returns nothing for the
spelling mistakes, yet they are still present in autocomplete.

As for known_hosts, the names are all hashed; so I doubt they're coming
from there.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:41, J <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I recognise the misspelling and I know I did it; I just can't find
> out where the little sod it stored (other than in .bash_history, it's gone
> now).
>
> Human readable text files are only good when you know where they are!
> A "grep -r mistook /" it is then.
>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 17:21, Martin via Nottingham <
> nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Jason,
>>
>> Something added to your /etc/hosts file or something getting added to
>> your bash aliases?
>>
>> Do you recognise the misspelling?
>>
>> A new host added to your network?...
>>
>>
>> And in all desperation... You could try a:
>>
>> grep -r 'misspelling_annoyance' wherever/likely/or/possible
>>
>>
>> Such is the beauty of human readable text config files and a consistent
>> set of tools to access them!
>>
>> (Cue signature song for Brick in The Wall:
>>
>> We don't need no steenking systemd...
>> We don't need no registrys...
>> ...
>> System! Leave that binary alone!)
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> Good luck?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On 15/11/2018 16:47, J via Nottingham wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > Tab autocomplete is a wondrous thing when it works and for quite a while
>> > it was for me. I have ~.ssh/config set-up with my various servers and
>> > keys and it was great to be able to type "ssh a[TAB]" and have it fill
>> > in the rest.
>> > Due to various stages of fat-fingering, it is now no longer fully
>> > auto-completing as it has got some spellign misteaks stored somewhere.
>> > Does anyone have any idea where that somewhere is?
>> > I've tried mucking around with "complete", but it doesn't report back
>> > any of the misspelled server names.
>> > All I really want to do is reach into the file (or whatever) and removed
>> > the duff entries.
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > J.
>>
>>
>>
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