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# SSH Command Line Parser
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## What.
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This program is called exactly like the `ssh` binary from OpenSSH, except
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instead of opening a remote shell it will print the username (if specified),
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host, and port (if specified) given on the command line.
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```bash
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./parse-ssh-cl -J bastion -X estelle@myhost:1234
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User: estelle
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Host: myhost
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Port: 1234
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Command:
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./parse-ssh-cl -4 -q -L 8080:localhost:8080 app@prod
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User: app
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Host: prod
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Port:
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Command:
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./parse-ssh-cl ssh://dev
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User:
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Host: dev
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Port:
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Command:
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./parse-ssh-cl host ls -l
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User:
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Host: host
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Port:
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Command: ls -l
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```
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## Why?
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Because when I use tmux I want to be able to open a shell on a remote host and
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have the window title show the host I'm connected to. Something that can take an
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SSH command line string and output the host is an important piece of that
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puzzle.
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## How?
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* I looked at the source of OpenSSH (`ssh.c`) and saw two functions
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`parse_ssh_uri` and `parse_user_host_port` that seemed like they did what I
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wanted so I just copied them over and tried to compile them standalone.
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* GCC yelled at me about all these missing function definitions so I copied
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them from around the code base (mostly `misc.c`).
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* If the function wasn't there I Googled around to find out what random header I
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needed.
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* I unearthed some heated drama surrounding `strlcpy` so I decided to copy the
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implementation from OpenBSD inline rather than link against libbsd.
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* I found [greymd/ssh_opt_parse](https://github.com/greymd/ssh_opt_parse) which
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is honestly better than this project in every conceivable way.
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* I copied the `getopt` string so that I could ignore all of the options, ran my
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two functions that now work, and boom, command line parsing just how upstream
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does it.
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## Do.
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Are you sure you really want to use this thing? Just run `make` in the source
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directory and then do whatever with the `parse-ssh-cl` binary it spits out.
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As far as dependencies go just about any distribution's development tools should
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be more than enough to build and use. It pretty just uses libc.
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## Never Asked Questions.
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Do you support `-l` and `-p` parsing? Not yet. That's a great idea me.
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## License.
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Pretty much all of this code is straight up copy/pasted from
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[OpenSSH](https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable) and the one function from
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[OpenBSD](https://github.com/openbsd/src). After reading the entire LICENSE file
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from OpenSSH I have concluded that I have no idea if and how I'm supposed to
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give attribution.
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