On 01.10.20 14:25, Brian Candler wrote: > On 01/10/2020 13:06, Martin Drescher wrote: >> what confuses me a bit is this shell(?) magic: When I type 'ssh ' on my console an hit the TAB twice, I get a list of host I would probably ssh to. This list does not come from an element in my bash history. On my initial question, I guessed this would somehow come from the known_hosts file. Does it? >> Can someone tell how this magic works? > > Under Ubuntu 18.04, it appears to be giving me everything in /etc/hosts *and* everything in ~/.ssh/known_hosts > > For the magic see: > > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ssh > > /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion # function _known_hosts_real() Oh, ok, I see there is no real magic. There are some hosts in my known_hosts, which have not been hashed. How this would happen, I don't know. Thanks, pointing me to function _known_hosts_real() did the trick. -- Martin
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