Description of problem: bash completion doesn't seem to work on remote files/directories with scp, with ssh keys setup between the two systems (using F11) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-completion-1.0-2.fc11.noarch How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup ssh keys authentication between two systems 2. type scp remotehostname:~/[tab] Actual results: the above tab-completes to scp remotehostname:/home/localusername/ Expected results: scp remotehostname:/home/remoteusername or as I am trying to connect to my lady friend's powerbook: scp remotehostname:/Users/remoteusername trying scp remotehostname:/U[tab] simply doesn't complete to anything. Additional info: Note: I don't believe this is the same problem as bug 444466, as the symptoms are not the same but have tried uninstalling gvfs anyway, without success. the tab completion is working fine for the hostname part at least...
These are probably two entirely different issues. Let's look at the latter first: I can't reproduce, it works fine for me on F-10. Do a "set -x" in the shell before invoking the completion and look at the output and possibly post it here. And try what the following outputs: ssh -o 'BatchMode yes' remotehostname command ls -aF1d '/U*' Also, you are hitting tab many enough times, right? One might not be enough.
Hi -- Thanks for looking at this so quickly. Yup - definitely hitting tab enough times. The problem is that it is completing on the local filesystem rather than the remote one. That is, when typing scp remotehost:~/[tab] the '~/' is getting expanded, rather than 'remotehost:~/' running with 'set -x' seems to show that, at least from what I can interpret from comparing it to the output from my other system where the completion works (running another distro). Here I have cur=/U, whereas on the working system, I have cur=remotehost:/U (note, 'bart-wired' = the remotehost below) scp bart-wired:/U+ local cur userhost path + local optconfigfile + COMPREPLY=() ++ _get_cword : ++ [[ 2 -eq 0 ]] ++ [[ 17 == \1\7 ]] ++ printf %s /U + cur=/U + _expand + [[ /U == \~*/* ]] + [[ /U == \~* ]] + [[ /U == *:* ]] + set -- scp bart-wired : /U + '[' 4 -gt 0 ']' + '[' sc = -F ']' + shift + '[' 3 -gt 0 ']' + '[' ba = -F ']' + shift + '[' 2 -gt 0 ']' + '[' : = -F ']' + shift + '[' 1 -gt 0 ']' + '[' /U = -F ']' + shift + '[' 0 -gt 0 ']' + [[ /U == */* ]] + local 'IFS= ' + COMPREPLY=("${COMPREPLY[@]}" $( command ls -aF1d $cur* 2>/dev/null | sed -e "s/[][(){}<>\",:;^&\!$=?\`|\\ ']/\\\\&/g" -e 's/[*@|=]$//g' -e 's/[^\/]$/& /g' )) ++ command ls -aF1d '/U*' ++ sed -e 's/[][(){}<>",:;^&\!$=?`|\ '\'']/\\&/g' -e 's/[*@|=]$//g' -e 's/[^\/]$/& /g' + return 0 here also is the output of: ssh -o 'BatchMode yes' bart-wired command ls -aFld '/U*' + ssh -o 'BatchMode yes' bart-wired command ls -aFld '/U*' drwxrwxr-t 5 root admin 170 Jun 1 2007 /Users/ Which seems to be working okay.
Thanks for the info. Reported upstream with some more info and my test results (managed to test a bit in a mock Rawhide chroot): https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=311702&group_id=100114&atid=413095 If you wish to test, try replacing _get_cword in /etc/bash_completion with the version from this old bash_completion version: http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=blob_plain;f=bash_completion;hb=5b304bb4d6e79781e22fada5bb6a056f35984938 ...but be warned that this might break some other things and does not necessarily have anything to do with what we eventually end up doing to this issue upstream. Oh, and what I thought might have been two distinct issues might actually be this same one after all.
Thanks -- using the old _get_cword function seems to be working well so far. What is especially curious is that F11 _get_cword function is identical to the one in my other, working system (an Ubuntu Jaunty box), except that the 3 printf "%s" ... statements in the fedora version are replaced by echo ... Changing those printfs for echos didn't seem have any effect (not that I expected it to). The only other difference, I think, is between the two versions of bash -- on the ubuntu box it is v 3.2
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I believe this should have been fixed in 1.1; it works for me in F-12. I don't have a F-11 box to test with any longer but in any case no more bash-completion updates are planned for F-11.