(28-10-2015, 02:36 PM)xero Wrote: # cat - with syntax highlighting!
c() {
  pygmentize -O style=sourcerer -f console256 -g $1
}

AAAAAARGH !! You're killing me bro! "$1" !!! By using only one argument, you destroy the ONLY purpose of cat!

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I'm particularly proud of my "ssh" workflow at work. I connect to many servers quite a lot, and thus optimized this process to make it simpler. I did 3 major things:

• Maintain a decent /etc/hosts
  
• Tweak $HOME/.ssh/config
  
• Make a CLI menu
  

The first part is easy. I maintain a /etc/hosts file to map "decent" names to IPs on the network (the original names as provided by the DNS are pretty odd, and the DNS doesn't work well anyway. I know it 'cause it's part of my job to maintain it :P Sadly, I'm not the one who choose the servers names...). thanks to vim/curl and some shell glue, I now have a ~500 lines hosts file, meaning I can just run "ssh <hostname>" to connect to any host, using a name of MY invention, that I can easily recover from memory.

The second part is the ssh config file. This one is the simplest part, I defined my "default" parameters, and specific ones:


You get the idea...

The last part is actually the most interresting. My work terminal of choice is "rxvt-unicode", mostly because I know how it works in-depth, and something like "st" would make my productivity drop too much (for now...). It also let you bind keys to actions, and particularly the "string" actions which will input a string when you press a key.

I created a script based on slmenu (beware, bitbucket link), which is basically a dmenu, but for the terminal. I then feed it with the hostnames from my /etc/hosts, and upon pressing <ENTER>, it connects to the chosen host. I then used the directive: "URxvt.keysym.F1: string:sshmenu\n" to have it started everytime I press F10 in a terminal. Simple, efficient!

EDIT: here is video showing (at home) how it works: http://raw.z3bra.org/dev/random/ssh-menu.webm

The difference here is that I need to run "sshmenu" by hand because I'm not using urxvt. At work, I only need to press F10 :)