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ssh autocomplete based on ~/.ssh/config

I sue this in my .bashrc file This will also do auto-completion for scp and sftp
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complete -o default -o nospace -W "$(grep -i -e '^host ' ~/.ssh/config | awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$2))}' ORS=' ')" ssh scp sftp

Wamith · 2013-11-19 14:44:41 8
Copy uncommitted changes from remote git repository

Copy changed files from remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly.
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ssh HOST '(cd REPO_DIR && git diff --name-only HEAD | cpio -o -Hnewc --quiet)' | cpio -iduv --quiet -Hnewc

ivan4th · 2014-02-01 18:40:31 7
copy remote ssh session output to local clipboard

ssh from local to remote and pipe output of file to the local clipboard
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ssh [remote-machine] "cat file" | xclip -selection c

conga · 2014-05-19 16:34:44 6
Live stream a remote audio device over ssh using only ffmpeg

Change parameter 'plughw:0,0' in accordance with your audio device. To learn 'plughw' option, type the command aplay -l.
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ssh user@host ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 1 -i plughw:0,0 -f ogg - \ | mplayer - -idle -demuxer ogg

dkaliberda · 2015-02-27 18:29:13 16
Kill any lingering ssh processes

Also ignoring "sshd" server is necessary since you should not kill ssh server processes.
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ps aux | grep ssh | grep -v grep | grep -v sshd | awk {'print $2'} | xargs -r kill -9

user2390 · 2018-10-01 04:49:09 348
Test your bash skills.
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ssh bandit0@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

wuseman1 · 2018-11-11 00:55:33 757
Append a pub key from pem file and save in remote server accessing with another key

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
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ssh-keygen -y -f user-key.pem | ssh user@host -i already_on_remote_server_key.pem 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

fromthestone · 2019-02-21 08:37:31 32
SSH Copy ed25519 key into your host
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ssh-copy-id -i your-ed25519-key user@host

fromthestone · 2019-04-11 02:23:46 34
port forwarding

pem file used by AWS servers for additional security
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ssh -L8888:localhost:80 -i nov15a.pem ubuntu@123.21.167.60

shantanuo · 2020-02-19 10:20:18 206
Infinite loop ssh
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until ssh login@10.0.0.1; do echo "Nope, keep trying!"; fi; sleep 10; done

minnmass · 2021-09-29 14:53:55 998
Convert an ssh2 public key to openssh format
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ssh-keygen -i -f $sshkeysfile >> authorized_keys

wwest4 · 2009-02-05 17:32:02 30
rsync over ssh
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rsync -avz -e ssh username@hostname:/path/to/remote/dir/ /path/to/local/dir/

int9h · 2009-02-18 22:02:38 5
Do a quick check on the harware specifications on a set of Linux (RedHat) boxes
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clear; for i in `cat thehosts` ; do ssh $i "cat uname -a ; /etc/redhat-release; cat /proc/cpuinfo | tail -n 25 | egrep '^processor|^model name' "; free ; df -h ;done

dapf73 · 2009-05-21 16:44:23 4
SSH monitor
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ssh root@server 'tail --max-unchanged-stats=10 -n0 -F /var/log/auth.log ' | grep Accepted | while read l ; do kdialog --title "SSH monitor" --passivepopup "$l" 3; done

skygreg · 2009-07-10 14:25:35 13
Send Reminders from your Linux Server to Growl on a Mac

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.
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remind -z1 -k'echo %s |ssh <user>@<host> "growlnotify"' ~/.reminders &

mattjbarlow · 2009-07-19 17:35:30 5
scp a good script from host A which has no public access to host C, but with a hop by host B

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..
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ssh middlehost "ssh -a root@securehost '> nicescript'" < nicescript

0x89 · 2009-08-26 20:25:12 5
Create SSH key exchange from one host to the other

Well its just appending your public key to the remote hosts authorized_keys, but can get messy logging in and out
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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <remote_host> "xargs --null echo >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

koushik · 2009-12-17 15:12:11 9
generate the moduli file for openssh if lost

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
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ssh-keygen -G /tmp/moduli-2048.candidates -b 2048

eastwind · 2010-01-29 19:33:23 3
How to use rysnc over ssh tunnel

Check the ssh_config file and set the variable: StrictHostKeyChecking no
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sshpass -p [password] rsync -av -e ssh [utente]@[indirizzoip]:/directorydacopiare/ /directorydidestinazione

0disse0 · 2010-01-31 15:21:14 3
Disaster Snapshot (procmail)

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
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(One or more files containing process trees (a snapshot) of other machines.)
```
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for x in `grep server /tmp/error.log | awk '{print $3}'`; do \ t=`date "+%d-%m-%H%M%S"` ; ssh -q -t admin@$x.domain.com 'pstree -auln' > ~/snapshots/$x-$t.out \ done

jrparris · 2010-02-26 19:50:41 4
Create & transfer tarball over ssh

Create tarball on stdout which is piped to tar reading from stdin all over ssh
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ssh -c 'tar cvzf - -C /path/to/src/*' | tar xzf -

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:15:17 3
run complex remote shell cmds over ssh, without escaping quotes

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.
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perl -e 'system @ARGV, <STDIN>' ssh host -l user < cmd.txt

recursiverse · 2010-06-04 17:27:20 3
Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

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
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High Preformance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59s-mh4 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Playing MPEG stream from standard input ...
Found new ID3 Header
MPEG 2.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 22050 Hz joint-stereo
```
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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-30 23:20:50 3
Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet. Make sure you change out the items between brackets.
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curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-31 00:17:47 3
Copy a file over SSH without SCP

Nice command for when you don't have scp available for whatever reason. Works with binaries.
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cat LOCALFILE | ssh HOST "cat > REMOTEFILE"

eataudio · 2011-02-03 05:29:06 4
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Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Create backup copy of file, adding suffix of the date of the file modification (NOT today's date)

When I go to change a configuration file I always like to make a backup first. You can use "cp -p" to preserve the modification time, but it gets confusing to have file.prev, file.prev2, etc. So I like to add a YYMMDD suffix that shows when the file was last changed. "stat -c %Y" gives you the modification time in epoch seconds, then "date -d @" converts that to whatever format you specify in your "+format" string.

Redirect a filehandle from a currently running process.

This command uses the debugger to attach to a running process, and reassign a filehandle to a file. The two commands executed in gdb are p close(1) which closes STDOUT and p creat("/tmp/filename",0600) which creates a file and opens it for output. Since file handles are assigned sequentially, this command opens the file in place of STDOUT and once the process continues, new output to STDOUT will instead be written to our capture file.

convert all files in a dir of a certain type to flv

This converts all m4a files in a dir to flv. You can just swap the m4a bit to anything else ffmpeg supports though, and it'll work.

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Watch the progress of 'dd'

dcfldd is a forensic version of dd that shows a process indicator by default.

List the binaries installed by a Debian package

GNU grep's perl-compatible regular expression(PCRE).

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

#4345 also works under windows

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

list files recursively by size

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