[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#568191: bash-completion: scp <tab> floods with network errors, not filenames

[Drew Parsons]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.1-3
Severity: normal

re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh

scp is used for copying ordinary files (with the extra bonus of
sending them through the internet).  So the behaviour I would expect
from scp <tab> is to complete filenames, the ones you intend to send.

Instead of that, scp <tab> goes insane trying ping every single host on the
network whose MAC address it happens to know about, and then floods
the screen with error messages complaining it can't connect to them:

Failed to resolve service 'bore [00:00:00:00:00:00]' of type
'_workstation._tcp' in domain 'local': Timeout reached

at least 50 such error messages from all the local hosts.
Oh, and the filename I happened to be trying to tab-complete to also
appeared at the end after all these network error messages.

This is absolutely insane.  It makes tab-completion effectively
useless for scp.

Please remove the interfering networking attempts and let
tab-completion do its normal job of making it easier to type filenames.

Drew

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