** Description changed:
From bash manual:
HOSTFILE
Contains the name of a file in the same format as /etc/hosts
that should be read when the shell needs to complete a hostname.
The list of possible hostname completions may be changed while
the shell is running; the next time hostname completion is
attempted after the value is changed, bash adds the contents of
the new file to the existing list. If HOSTFILE is set, but has
no value, bash attempts to read /etc/hosts to obtain the list of
possible hostname completions. When HOSTFILE is unset, the
hostname list is cleared.
When HOSTFILE is specified and ~/.ssh/known_hosts exits the entries in
$HOSTFILE is not used for completion.
The problem is '_known_hosts()' in /etc/bash_completion where it seems
only entries from "known host files" are used. I'm not sure if this is
- intentional, but if it is I'd like to file a complaint :-) If not I
+ intentional, but if it is, I'd like to file a complaint :-) If not I
guess I'm in the right place.
I suggest that the result from know_hosts and $HOSTFILE should be
merged.
Running Feisty, GNU bash, version 3.2.13(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
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Host completion does not use HOSTFILE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184175
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