a quick question about auto complete

[paulga]

first how do I have an auto completion feature for scp ? I often need to 'scp ' a file to a remote server, then I type :

PHP Code:

scp someprogram paulga@pinherstforestrain.math.edu 


I 'd begin to type tab before or after the input of @. but the available choices are mainly : @localhost6, @localhost.localdomain, @localhost, etc.. which file records these hosts name?

second, to execute a program in current directory, I have to type ./program, how can I ommit the prefix, or I could type it as I type "octave",etc.

Thanks a lot.

[stevea]

The ssh/scp autocompletion uses several methods to obtain the possible hostnames. Looking in /etc/hosts and in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, ~/.ssh/known_hosts2, /.ssh2/hostkeys

If you want the current directory on your execution path you can add it to the shell's PATH variable
export PATH=.:$PATH
or
export PATH=$PATH:.

You may want to put this in your ~/.bashrc file

[paulga]

That works. Thanks a lot!