[Bash-completion-devel] .netrc support for ftp, lftp, sitecopy, [curl, fetchmail, ... wget]

[Freddy Vulto]

On 091120 15:13, gibboris at gmail.com wrote:
> Should this go into _known_hosts_real ? _known_host_netrc ? ${1} or

SIDE NOTE: If all agree `_known_hosts_real' gets renamed to
`__known_hosts'?

That said, I'd rather have a separate `__hosts_netrc' and keep
`_known_hosts_real' for completing commands who really use ssh's
`known_hosts' files.

I'm confused whether all commands who access hosts can be treated the
same?  Right now we gather hostnames from different locations:
- compgen -A hostname (using $HOSTFILE)
- ssh known_hosts files
- avahi-browse
- .netrc

and seem to present them to all commands asking for hostnames.  I can
image not every command can cope with all hostnames?  Or am I thinking
too complicated?  E.g. can `xhost' really cope with all
hostnames/aliases extracted from ssh's known_host files?

Anyway, that's why I think separate __hosts_... functions, being easy to
chain differently in different situations, would be a better choice.


Regards,

Freddy Vulto
http://fvue.nl