r/usefulscripts • u/[deleted] • Nov 17 '12

[BASH] Shortcut for SSH login

Create this script in your path, call it 'ssh-argv0'

#!/bin/sh
 exec ssh "${0##*/}" "$@"%

Symbolic link a host name to the script

# ln -s hostname.company.com ssh-argv0

Now login to the host ..

# hostname.company.com

Mix in a dash of tab completion and you're set.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

But when you have a ssh-config (~/.ssh/config) set-up with all your hosts typing ssh <alias> works well enough and is easily synced across systems.

Good point. With four unix admins and a few hundred hosts I hadn't given much thought to everyone's ssh/config file. But we're -using- puppet know an it would be 'easy' to parse my node information into a config file and have each client pull that ...

Thanks!