Re: An error occurs when using tab completion in the scp command.

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/30/25 11:39 PM, ktt proc wrote:

Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 5.3
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
     An error occurs when using tab completion in the scp command.
     $ LANG=C /usr/local/bin/bash
     $ ssh fsmaster

     ssh: connect to host fsmaster port 22: Connection refused
     $ scp -P 18890 copyfile fsmSegmentation fault         (core dumped)
LANG=C /usr/local/bin/bash
     $ scp copyfile fsmastSegmentation fault         (core dumped) LANG=C
/usr/local/bin/bash

A couple of questions. Do you have a completion specification installed
for scp? Type

complete -p scp

to find out.

I can't reproduce this, so do you have a stack traceback from the core
dump so we can see where it's crashing?

Chet

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