scp remote path completion

[ridiculousfish]

pants writes:

There doesn't seem to be one of these available in the archives, and
it's the thing I've missed most since moving from zsh, so I figured I'd
really get fishy and write it. Appending the following to your scp.fish
(or making an alternate scp.fish in .config/fish/completions) will allow
you to preform tab completion of remote paths for scp! Identical
completions could also provide identical functionality in rsync. It
would be nice to integrate fish's built-in description methods, but I
can't think of a way to do that without ensuring fish is installed on
the remote system (not a general fix) or mounting an sshfs (gross).

Code:
complete -c scp -d "Remote Path" -n "echo (commandline -ct)|sgrep -o '.*:';and true" -a "

(
#Prepend any user@host information supplied before the remote completion
echo (commandline -ct)|sgrep -o '.:'
)(
#Get the list of remote files from the specified ssh server
ssh -o "BatchMode yes" (echo (commandline -ct)|sed -ne 's/(.):./\1/p') ls\ -d\ (echo (commandline -ct)|sed -ne 's/.://p')*
)

"

Enjoy!

Cheers,

pants.

[ridiculousfish]

Thanks! Integrated here:

To git@github.com:fish-shell/fish-shell.git
1cd6195..830fba6 master -> master

I do not know if this is necessary with the latest git version (I'm using the tar archive from the homepage), but adding the "-p" switch to the 'ls' command appends a slash '/' if the completed name is a directory. This makes completion even more convenient (for me) because I do not have to use backspace + '/' in order to continue after completing a path.

But I do not know how portable the '-p' switch is (should be there on GNU systems).

[ecraven]

I'd second lyro's suggestion, otherwise you have to add / all over the place