Tab Complete for SSH and SCP
Jul 26, 2013 · 1 minute readCategory: magentobash
If you are required to connect to different servers, then remembering and typing in all of the details can become tiresome.
Thankfully there is simple solution to this, using the SSH config file.
To make use of this, create the following file ~/.ssh/config
In there add the following details
Host easyToRememberName
HostName 127.0.0.1
Port 2020
User ross
You will then can tab completion on ssh and scp commands. You can see more of the options that can be set in the file here