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)
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