[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#696430: bash-completion: Fails to complete remote files over ssh.

[Max Tsepkov]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.0-1
Severity: important

When user tries to complete a remote path like:

    $ scp example.com:/tm

nothing happens. I.e. shell does not complete the path.

It happens because completion issues this command:

    ssh -o 'Batchmode yes' example.com command ls -aF1dL '/tm*'

to retreive available paths.
Put it into shell and ssh will fail:

    $ ssh -o 'Batchmode yes' example.com command ls -aF1dL '/tm*'
    command-line line 0: Missing yes/no argument.

However, equality sign works:

    $ ssh -o 'Batchmode=yes' www.wlmarketing.com command ls -aF1dL '/tm*'
    /tmp/


OpenSSH version 6.0
Tested on 5.5 with same result.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash  4.2-4
ii  dpkg  1.16.9

bash-completion recommends no packages.

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