If you are blocked or need to use a Socks proxy

I sue this in my .bashrc file This will also do auto-completion for scp and sftp

Copy changed files from remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly.

ssh from local to remote and pipe output of file to the local clipboard

Change parameter 'plughw:0,0' in accordance with your audio device. To learn 'plughw' option, type the command aplay -l.

Also ignoring "sshd" server is necessary since you should not kill ssh server processes.

Useful if you need to add another key and you using pem files (typical in AWS EC2 Instances). If you use it in EC2 instances, remember that password authentication is disabled, so you have to use the first key generated when you generated the instance

pem file used by AWS servers for additional security

Requires Linux Remind: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind and Growl on the Mac: http://growl.info/ growlnotify needs to be in the executable path on the mac. Combined with "prowl" in the iPhone you can receive push notifications of your reminders to the iPhone.

Stop tormenting the poor animal cat! Also you should not that you need a private key not protected by a passphrase on middlehost that grants you access to securehost..

Well its just appending your public key to the remote hosts authorized_keys, but can get messy logging in and out

if you lost your moduli file in openssh server side you need generate new one with this command then test if the number generated can be used with ssh-keygen -T moduli-2048 -f /tmp/moduli-2048.candidates

Check the ssh_config file and set the variable: StrictHostKeyChecking no

Required: 1) Systems that send out alert emails when errors, database locks, etc occur. 2) a system that: a) has the ability to receive emails, and has procmail installed. b) has ssh keys set up to machines that would send out alerts. When procmail receives alert email, you can issue a command like this one (greps and awks may very - you're isolating the remote hostname that had the issue). This will pull process trees from the alerting machines, which is always useful in later analysis. Show Sample Output

Create tarball on stdout which is piped to tar reading from stdin all over ssh

I was tired of the endless quoting, unquoting, re-quoting, and escaping characters that left me with working, but barely comprehensible shell one-liners. It can be really frustrating, especially if the local and remote shells differ and have their own escaping and quoting rules. I decided to try a different approach and ended up with this.

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can. This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption. Show Sample Output

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet. Make sure you change out the items between brackets.

Nice command for when you don't have scp available for whatever reason. Works with binaries.