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As I got hit with a meme about command line stuff, I figured I'd share an update to my favorite bash completion:

SSH_COMPLETE=( $(cut -f1 -d' ' ~/.ssh/known_hosts |\
                 tr ',' '\n' |\
                 sort -u |\
                 grep -e '[:alpha:]') )
complete -o default -W "${SSH_COMPLETE[*]}" ssh

If you ssh directly to IP addresses very often, you might want to leave off the last grep -e.

Not going to tag anyone, but if you have a favorite completion, please share! (I suggest not in a comment on this post as my comment system does not preserve any formatting).