Re: outputs of _users and _hosts to arrays

[Motoi Washida <a66@h8.dion.ne.jp>]

On 07/26/2005, at 10:56, Wataru Kagawa wrote:

>>> hosts=( ${$( cat /etc/hosts | cut -d : -f 1,7 | grep -v  
>>> "#" )//:*/} )
>>>
>>> to get what I need.
>>>
>> This has the same problem, but I don't know a better way well.  
>> Using some functions from Perl or some other language?
>
> Do you mean that the commands inside the parameter expansion may  
> work on Mac OS X but not on other computers?
On some systems using NIS, you can get host names of your network  
from shared database, IIRC.


But I think you can get better results by setting hosts manually.

% zstyle ':completion:*' hosts ${${(f)"$(<~/.ssh/known_hosts)"}%% 
[[:space:],]*}

see http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2005/msg00084.html