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<p>gotcha! <br>
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<p>Caught it in the act. <br>
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<p>Several weeks ago I thought I noticed this. Couldn't confirm it
at the time, but just now saw it again and ... confirmed via <font
face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/var/log/messages</font>
on the remote system. <br>
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<p>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): <b>SCP does remote tab
completion.</b> (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 <font face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace">/tmp/blahblah</font>, so I do ... <br>
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<p><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">scp -p
remote:/tmp/bla</font><i><tab><font face="Courier New,
Courier, monospace"> .</font><br>
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<p> ... and the shell completes the <i>remote</i> 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. <br>
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<p>Thought y'all might like to know. Anyone else seen it? <br>
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<p>-- R; <><</p>
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