yhager
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Is there a way to implement an ssh prompt, similar to Xmonad.Prompt.Ssh (sorry can't post a link)?

The way it works in Xmonad, is that when you press the key binding, you get a prompt, like dmenu, in which you type in a name of a host, and when you press <enter> you get a terminal with ssh to that host.

Very useful when working a lot with remote machines, saves the trouble of openning a shell and calling 'ssh <host>'

I guess one could come up with a script that parses .ssh/config, and calls dmenu on it, but I'm wondering if there's already something like that out there

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answered Apr 1 '14

joepd
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Wrap something like this with a keybind, that should do the trick:

urxvt -e ssh $(awk '{print $1}' ~/.ssh/known_hosts | dmenu -i -nb black -nf red -sb red -sf black -l 12)

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perfect, thanks!

yhager (Apr 1 '14)edit

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answered Sep 28 '15

yhager
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I now mostly use .ssh/config, so the following is a better option now:

 bindsym $mod+c exec "urxvt -e ssh $(grep -i ^host ~/.ssh/config|grep -v '\*' |cut -d' ' -f 2-|sed 's/ /\n/g'|sort|uniq |grep -v '^$' | dmenu -i -nb black -nf red -sf black -sb red -l 12)"

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ssh prompt like Xmonad.Prompt.Ssh

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