sshh

An ssh helper when you have too many ssh hosts

Installation

1. Get inside the sshh directory

$ cd sshh

2. Get the absolute path to this sshh directory and copy that path

$ pwd

> /path/to/sshh

3. Open your .bashrc, .zshrc or whatever configuration file your terminal uses and add the following line to it

alias sshh='/path/to/sshh/sshh.py'

4. Run the source command to apply the changes (example below)

$ source ~/.zshrc

5. You can now execute sshh from anywhere

$ sshh

Usage

• You can use the tool from anywhere using the sshh command.
• To get help on the arguments you can run sshh -h.
• The first time you run the command you will have to navigate the folder where you are storing all your pem files.
• To add a new instance ssh you can run sshh -a <friendly_name>. This will prompt you to enter the instance IP. Then it will ask you to choose the pem file from the directory where you store all pem files.
• To ssh into an instance using a friendly name you can run sshh -n <friendly_name>.
• You can also just run sshh command to choose which instance to ssh into.
• To remove a friendly name you can use sshh -r <friendly_name>
• To describe a friendly name you can use sshh -d <friendly_name>
• To search a friendly name you can use sshh -s <search text>. The search text can be . for listing all or your search text will be used to match the starting letters of the friendly name