
I've had a very similar problem with ssh host tab completion - the primary difference seemed to be that it worked on Mac and not on Linux. (I never use console these days, so I couldn't tell you about that.) I solved it as you did - by a more specific call to the completion file(s) in by bashrc. Although I think I sourced the one specifically for SSH hosts. I can't remember if it was here (ie. TLUG) or somewhere else that I saw a conversation about the incredibly tortuous routing of Bash startup. It was months or even a couple years ago. Essentially, someone had attempted to map out the decision process behind what files got parsed when Bash started depending on all the little check-boxes: is it interactive, is it console, is it login, dozens of others. The flow chart created was enough to make a hardened system administrator cry. So the direct route - add what you want to the bashrc - is definitely preferred to trying to actually debug what happened. On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 11:02, Daniel Wayne Armstrong via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Resolved the issue by adding ...
source /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
... to my ~/.bashrc, though I still don't know why it would auto-complete OK inside tmux.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 4:24 PM Daniel Wayne Armstrong < daniel@circuidipity.com> wrote:
Hello all ... I am currently running Debian Buster and Bash shell. I have a few Host aliases defined in my ~/.ssh/config. Example: Host test-server. So when, in console, I type ...
$ ssh tes
... and hit Tab, then auto-completion fills out ...
$ ssh test-server
When I try to do the same thing in a terminal (urxvt), tab completion does *not* work. The complete host alias has to be entered.
*But* tab completion for ssh host aliases *does* work if entered within tmux running in the terminal.
Any idea how I can get tab completion working for ssh host aliases in the terminal?
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