[lug] Just found something interesting about tab completion

[David L. Willson]

I've seen it work two ways. The first is where you have your ssh public key on the other box for password-less login, and the second is where it completes from the local directory structure, but you happen to have the same directory structure on the other side...

David L. Willson
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----- "Kenneth D Weinert" <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:

> I was using scp to copy some stuff and out of habit hit tab to
> complete 
> the file name.
> 
> It worked. Short delay, but the filename completion worked across an
> ssh 
> link.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Weinert
> 
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