Missing programmable bash completions for host and ping commands

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

It seems that the host and ping programmable completions are no longer available in quantal?

[hloeung@darkon etc]$ complete | grep known_hosts
complete -F _known_hosts rlogin
complete -F _known_hosts ftp
complete -F _known_hosts tracepath6
complete -F _known_hosts tracepath
complete -F _known_hosts mtr
complete -F _known_hosts traceroute6
complete -F _known_hosts fping
complete -F _known_hosts ssh-installkeys
complete -F _known_hosts rsh
complete -F _known_hosts dig
complete -F _known_hosts telnet
complete -F _known_hosts showmount
complete -F _known_hosts fping6
complete -F _known_hosts traceroute
[hloeung@darkon etc]$ complete | grep known_hosts | wc -l
14

On a precise host, I get:

hloeung@hadar:~$ complete | grep known_hosts
complete -F _known_hosts rlogin
complete -F _known_hosts ftp
complete -F _known_hosts tracepath6
complete -F _known_hosts host
complete -F _known_hosts tracepath
complete -F _known_hosts ping
complete -F _known_hosts mtr
complete -F _known_hosts traceroute6
complete -F _known_hosts fping
complete -F _known_hosts ping6
complete -F _known_hosts ssh-installkeys
complete -F _known_hosts rsh
complete -F _known_hosts dig
complete -F _known_hosts telnet
complete -F _known_hosts showmount
complete -F _known_hosts fping6
complete -F _known_hosts traceroute
hloeung@hadar:~$ complete | grep known_hosts | wc -l
17

I can't seem to recall the last time host and ping used to work but I'm pretty sure it's only started recently? Any chance someone could take a look?

Thanks,

Haw

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

In Trusty, ping is handled by _ping, so custom code just for ping. host just gets the generic _minimal.

completion for host was removed in commit bd482ca2f221323aa461ca75c9457ec11f43570e

   host, nslookup: Remove completions for bind utils from bash_completion.

   This fixes tests on systems without bind.

https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=object;h=bd482ca2f221323aa461ca75c9457ec11f43570e

(followed by a commit that reverted that, then followed by a commit that reverted the reversion, putting this commit back in.)

 Seems like a crappy reason to take out a useful completion.