ssh host completion in bash with a predifined user

If you use a lot ssh from your workstation to connect to many servers using the same user (for example, err… root, or a standard user present in every of your servers) as I do, this is a must-have :)

First of all, ensure you have

HashKnownHosts no

in your ssh_config.

Then, edit your .bashrc and append these lines:

complete -r ssh
_cssh ()
{
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]};
COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(cat ${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts |awk -F ',' '{print $1}')" -- ${cur##root@}))
}
complete -P "root@" -F _cssh ssh

you can change the root@ with your user@.

Enjoy!

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