SCP not auto completing copies

[Vusa]

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with Mint6(gnome).. When copying over files from my Mint6 laptop to another Linux server that I have logged into before, the scp statements changes and becomes incorrect when pressing the tab key. Please see example below.

Scenario. I want to copy a file called, file.txt to a remote dir called /attachments/ on server 10.0.0.1

scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/attachments

On Mint5, I would get auto-completion when I press tab before completing the word "attachments", ie

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scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/atta[tab]    "would become  correct ==>"     scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/attachments     

This is because I would have logged into that server before with keys.

The problem on Mint6;

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scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/atta[tab]    " would become ==>"   scp file.txt /attachments/

I dont have an /attachments/ folder locally. So the Mint6 does check remotely, but doesnt keep the full statement.

Obviously when I press [enter], the command fails.

Any ideas?

[miket]

Hi,

The correct syntax for scp is as follows :

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scp ./file.txt username@10.0.0.1:/attachments/

The autocompletion wouldn't make a command completion for a folder on another host, it would only autocomplete if there was a directory with the same name in the current directory.

Mike.

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with Mint6(gnome).. When copying over files from my Mint6 laptop to another Linux server that I have logged into before, the scp statements changes and becomes incorrect when pressing the tab key. Please see example below.

Scenario. I want to copy a file called, file.txt to a remote dir called /attachments/ on server 10.0.0.1

scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/attachments

On Mint5, I would get auto-completion when I press tab before completing the word "attachments", ie

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scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/atta[tab]    "would become  correct ==>"     scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/attachments     

This is because I would have logged into that server before with keys.

The problem on Mint6;

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scp file.txt 10.0.0.1:/atta[tab]    " would become ==>"   scp file.txt /attachments/

I dont have an /attachments/ folder locally. So the Mint6 does check remotely, but doesnt keep the full statement.

Obviously when I press [enter], the command fails.

Any ideas?

[Vusa]

Hi Mike,

Your solution does NOT work..

On Mint5, I didnt have a problem with this.

On Mint6 I do.

Any ideas?

[miket]

Hi,

I think the only reason the autocomplete was working was becuase it was already in your history file, the bash shell will not login to another machine
in any way to make autocomplete work.

Type the command out in full yourself once, then the next time you try it use the tab to see if the autocomplete works.

Mike.

Hi Mike,

Your solution does NOT work..

On Mint5, I didnt have a problem with this.

On Mint6 I do.

Any ideas?

[Vusa]

Already tried that, It still doesnt work Mike..

[emorrp1]

Hi, not an actual solution to your problem, but a workaround: The latest version of mintUpload (2.1.2) in the community repository has scp support. You'd need to create a new file in ~/.linuxmint/mintUpload/services/ with the following contents:

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type=scp
name=My SCP
host=10.0.0.1
user=<YOUR USERNAME>
pass=<YOUR PASSWORD>
path=attachments

Then, you should be able to just right-click the file in your file manager, click Upload, select "My SCP" from the combo box, and click upload. Alternatively you could run

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/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpload/mintupload.py file.txt

from the command line.