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10:07am, Tuesday 9 May 2006

While reading LWN/linux.com I discovered that bash can do tab-completion on a remote host:

scp foo.txt remotehost:somed<tab>

goes off and makes a batch-mode ssh connection to remotehost, finds the possible completions and returns them to the partial command line. That's just freaky.

Oh, and bind '"\t":menu-complete' gets cyclic-completion instead of partial-completion, which is strange at first but feels like it might be faster when I get used to it.

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