[Bug 139674] Re: bash completion doesn't perform filename processing for ssh -i

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Title:
  bash completion doesn't perform filename processing for ssh -i

Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “bash-completion” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  In /etc/bash_completion, the completion for the "ssh" command doesn't use the
  "-o filenames" option.  As a result, filename processing isn't performed on the
  completed results.  (In particular, this includes adding a trailing slash to
  directory names.)

  This is nice for most cases, but ssh's "-i" option does take a filename
  argument.  The lack of filename processing can be rather annoying when trying
  to specify a key in a deep path.

  
  Unfortunately, I'm not sure if bash provides an easy way to enable the
  "-o filenames" behavior only for certain arguments.  I think it may only be
  possible to set it on a per-command basis.  Therefore the only way to fix this
  may be to manually perform this processing in the _filedir() function in
  /etc/bash_completion (or perhaps just in the _ssh() function).

  Either way, this is a very low priority bug.

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