bash completion

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Fri Feb 10 14:21:01 EST 2006


Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know how many others are aware of this, but bash's command
> line auto-completion is customizable and extensible.  I just
> discovered this myself this week.
[...]
> The possibilities are endless :)

We apparently have it doing autocompletion on hostnames in our
environment for certain things too, and ssh will autocomplete on any
hostname in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts or /etc/ssh/known_hosts file with
the stock /etc/bash_completion !
-- 

Seeya,
Paul "Now waiting for /etc/bash_thought_completion" :)



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