[colug-432] tab completion and SCP

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

I figured this out a while back when I was travelling and my shell would
appear to hang.  I rate limit ssh connections from the public Internet,
so that was what was causing it to hang (each tab completion requires a
new ssh connection).

Regards,

-Roberto

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 05:00:30PM -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
>    gotcha!
> 
>    Caught it in the act.
> 
>    Several weeks ago I thought I noticed this. Couldn't confirm it at the
>    time, but just now saw it again and ... confirmed via /var/log/messages on
>    the remote system.
> 
>    I suppose most of us have grown accustomed to tab completion, and tab
>    completion has gotten so much "smarter" in recent years. Here's a nifty
>    new one (for me): SCP does remote tab completion. (Or maybe some of you
>    knew already.) It's extremely cool. It's also a little disconcerting. In
>    this case, the remote system has a file /tmp/blahblah, so I do ...
> 
>      scp -p remote:/tmp/bla<tab> .
> 
>     ... and the shell completes the remote filename just as if it was local.
>    That's right, boys and girls, it spawns a remote shell to list the files
>    there on the other system and then report back to your local shell.
>    Spiffy.
> 
>    Thought y'all might like to know. Anyone else seen it?
> 
>    -- R; <><

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