Pete's Log: I love tcsh

Entry #1311, Thu, September 19, 2002, 11:23 EST (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)
(posted when I was 24 years old.)

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Hah! So while I was using Perk's computer in California, an idea struck me as I cursed his tcsh setup for not autocompleting wizard in an ssh command.

It goes a little something like this:

set hostnames = `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts|awk '{print $1}' | cut -d, -f1`
complete ssh 'n/-l/(prijks root)/' 'p/*/$hostnames/'

Now once I've connected to a machine once using ssh, new shells will autocomplete the hostname for me. Oh yeah. I'm a god.

My only concern is that my known_hosts file could become to bankrupt. I don't want to have to type more than three characters for any hostname. We shall see.

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