Great attempt on making a tool, I think your usecase might not be as appealing to others.
If I need to list the hosts I have config for I would use:
grep Host ~/.ssh/config
If your list of servers is too long to remember, you might want to look at Ansible for configuration.
But whatever works for you :)
I can (and do) just read the ~/ssh/.config file if needed, it’s quite legible. In most cases however zsh autocompletion does all the heavy lifting for me (ssh ser(tab) -> ssh servername).
Still a cool idea for a script, and if it works well for you more power to you, just saying there’s more ergonomic and universally applicable solutions. (Only mentioning this since you said “I couldn’t find a decent solution to this problem”).
You have a list of systems you’ve connected to in known_hosts, though. And the config file is easy enough to parse - throwing away the stuff you don’t care about - to expand on that list.
I assume you mean “lookup”, as import doesn’t really make much sense.
I’m currently using this with wofi, though I’ll eventually rewrite it as anyrun plugin, which provides a bit more control:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from argparse import ArgumentParser
import subprocess
import json
import os
ssh_config_file = "~/.ssh/config"
ssh_known_hosts_file = "~/.ssh/known_hosts"
# Returns a list of all hosts
def get_hosts():
hosts = []
with open(os.path.expanduser(ssh_config_file)) as f:
content = f.readlines()
for line in content:
line = line.lstrip()
# Ignore wildcards
if line.startswith('Host ') and not '*' in line:
for host in line.split()[1:]:
hosts.append(host)
# Removes duplicate entries
hosts = sorted(set(hosts))
return hosts
def get_known_hosts():
hosts = []
with open(os.path.expanduser(ssh_known_hosts_file)) as f:
content = f.readlines()
for line in content:
line = line.lstrip()
host_entry = line.partition(" ")[0]
hosts.append(host_entry.partition(",")[0])
# Removes duplicate entries
hosts = sorted(set(hosts))
return hosts
# Returns a newline seperated UFT-8 encoded string of all ssh hosts
def parse_hosts(hosts):
return "\n".join(hosts).encode("UTF-8")
# Executes wofi with the given input string
def show_wofi(command, hosts):
process = subprocess.Popen(command,shell=True,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
ret = process.communicate(input=hosts)
host, rest = ret
return host
# Switches the focus to the given id
def ssh_to_host(host, terminal, ssh_command):
if "]:" in host:
host, port = host[1:].split("]:")
command = "{terminal} \'{ssh_command} {host} -p {port}\'".format(terminal=terminal, ssh_command=ssh_command, host=host, port=port)
else:
command = "{terminal} \'{ssh_command} {host}\'".format(terminal=terminal, ssh_command=ssh_command, host=host)
process = subprocess.Popen(command,shell=True)
# Entry point
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = ArgumentParser(description="Wofi based ssh launcher")
parser.add_argument("terminal", help='Terminal command to use')
parser.add_argument("--ssh-command", dest='ssh_command', default='ssh', help='ssh command to use (default=ssh)')
parser.add_argument("--mode", dest='mode', default='known_hosts', help='where to read from (default=known_hosts)')
parser.add_argument("--command", default='wofi -p \"SSH hosts: \" -d -i --hide-scroll', help='launcher command to use')
args = parser.parse_args()
if (args.mode == "config"):
hosts = get_hosts()
elif (args.mode == "known_hosts"):
hosts = get_known_hosts()
parsed_hosts = parse_hosts(hosts)
selected = show_wofi(args.command, parsed_hosts)
selected_host = selected.decode('utf-8').rstrip()
if selected_host != "":
ssh_to_host(selected_host, args.terminal, args.ssh_command)
Given how the python script is written; I doubt this was meant for linux… because its completely unnecessary on Linux: man SSH config
More power to you though!
Just on the side, Openssh and ssh config works just as well on Windows.
It is. You cant get ssh to print out a nice list afaik.
Great attempt on making a tool, I think your usecase might not be as appealing to others. If I need to list the hosts I have config for I would use: grep Host ~/.ssh/config If your list of servers is too long to remember, you might want to look at Ansible for configuration. But whatever works for you :)
I can (and do) just read the
~/ssh/.config
file if needed, it’s quite legible. In most cases however zsh autocompletion does all the heavy lifting for me (ssh ser(tab) -> ssh servername
).Still a cool idea for a script, and if it works well for you more power to you, just saying there’s more ergonomic and universally applicable solutions. (Only mentioning this since you said “I couldn’t find a decent solution to this problem”).
You have a list of systems you’ve connected to in known_hosts, though. And the config file is easy enough to parse - throwing away the stuff you don’t care about - to expand on that list.
I could add a import from known_hosts option or something like that
I assume you mean “lookup”, as import doesn’t really make much sense.
I’m currently using this with wofi, though I’ll eventually rewrite it as anyrun plugin, which provides a bit more control:
I showed you how… read on how to setup an SSH config… its completely possible
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