Is there a way to escape or auto-complete paths inside the Linux VM?

[eproxus]

When using orb, is there a way to properly escape or auto-complete paths into the Linux instance somehow? I'm thinking of a use case like this:

$ orb cat /etc/*-release
fish: No matches for wildcard '/etc/*-release'.

Of course, locally there's no way to magically bypass the shell glob, but if e.g. quoted the file name also becomes literal inside the Linux instance:

$ orb cat '/etc/*-release'
cat: '/etc/*-release': No such file or directory

[kdrag0n]

That was more or less the idea of this flag, but it won't really work due to escaping:

  -s, --shell            Use the login shell instead of running command directly

[eproxus]

For tab completion, perhaps some inspiration can be taken from other shells' SSH auto-complete functionality (not sure if they manage to escape wildcards too, but maybe it's possible in some shells...).

E.g. in fish:

$ scp some-host:/etc/lsb-<TAB>
$ scp some-host:/etc/lsb-release # auto-completes to this
$ scp some-host:/etc/profile<TAB>
…c/profile  (Remote Path)  …c/profile.d/  (Remote Path)

[eproxus]

And an escaped star \* with scp is treated as a remote wildcard.

[kdrag0n]

In the next version, the shell flag will allow this. For example:

orb -s cat '/etc/*-release'

Auto-complete is a different issue and I'm not sure how that will look yet.