A simple host manager co-worked with native known_hosts file

Just type pssh in your console, and you can see a menu listing that auto-generated from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts

$ pssh

You can quickly select what you want to do after the prompt:

Please input your selection:

by four menas:

1. quick connect to item 2 in the menu using ssh

    Please input your selection: 2
   

2. or using ping, mosh, scp by prepend command to the selection:

    Please input your selection: p 2
    Please input your selection: ping 2
    Please input your selection: m 2
    Please input your selection: mosh 2
    Please input your selection: scp 2
   

3. for scp command, use the following syntax to doing scp copy:

   from local to remote: * Use scp, please provide target >> local/path/file :remote/path/file

   from remote to local: * Use scp, please provide target >> :remote/file local/path/file

   prepend -r before the path if you want to recursively copy a directory

4. use q, quit, or exit to exit the menu.

If you have a bunch of hosts that make the menu hard to search, you can use ~/.ssh/pssh_config to classify hosts into different group.

The syntax of pssh_config is YAML

Use qq, .., or ../ to go back from sub-menu to main menu

• class: The class name displaying in pssh menu
• host: be used to do equal match with host/ip
• regexp: Perl regexp format to do pattern match with host/ip

Example config:

classes:
  - class: School
    host:
      - 10.113.23.1
      - 10.113.23.2
    regexp:
      - .*.cs.nctu.edu.tw

  - class: *.linpc.org
    regexp:
      - .*.linpc.org

  - class: My Develop Env
    host:
      - dev1.example.com
      - dev2.example.com