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From: Fourhundred Thecat <400thecat@gmx.ch>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: hostname completion for ssh / scp
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:54:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <581E46EE.2070605@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161105132953.ZM17234@torch.brasslantern.com>

> On 2016-11-05 21:29, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 5,  7:54pm, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> 
> /etc/hosts is a file read by the DNS resolver library to look up IPs
> for hosts that either aren't found in DNS, or that locally need to
> use a different IP than the one found by a network DNS lookup.  It
> is not there for purposes of configuring completions in the shell,
> and lines that don't have an IP address are useless for the intended
> purpose of the file.
> 
> Read "man 5 hosts".  Bash might let you use it the way you say by way
> of a non-strict parse of the contents, but that doesn't make it right.

I agree. That it works in bash, does not make it right.
It is a useful feature nevertheless.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-05 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-03 19:11 Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05  4:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05  8:55   ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 17:24     ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05 18:54       ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 20:29         ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05 20:54           ` Fourhundred Thecat [this message]
2016-11-05 22:53           ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-06  8:49             ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-06 17:41               ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found]       ` <581E2AE5.4040006__46101.1380576112$1478372966$gmane$org@gmx.ch>
2016-11-05 20:31         ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-11-05 20:50           ` Fourhundred Thecat

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