Quick SSH picker script

np.sh - The quick run script

If you installed the noports client using our universal.sh script, you may have noticed that it installed an additional script called np.sh.

This script was installed to make it slightly easier to connect to all of your devices using noports, if you are good with scripting or already have a preferred way to use noports, feel free to delete, modify or ignore this script entirely.

If you don't have any devices configured, this script will exit. See Configuring np.sh below to set this script up for your use.

Here is the script template which we store in GitHub:

https://github.com/atsign-foundation/noports/blob/trunk/packages/dart/sshnoports/bundles/shell/magic/sshnp.sh

#!/bin/bash
# SCRIPT METADATA
binary_path="$HOME/.local/bin"
client_atsign=""
device_atsign=""
host_atsign=""
devices=()
additional_args=()
# END METADATA

unset d
echo "Select a device (enter the number):"
select d in "${devices[@]}"; do
	break
done

if [ -z "$d" ]; then
	echo "No device selected"
	exit 1
fi

echo "Executing $binary_path"/sshnp -f "$client_atsign" -t "$device_atsign" -h "$host_atsign" -d "$d" "${additional_args[@]}" "$@"
"$binary_path"/sshnp -f "$client_atsign" -t "$device_atsign" -h "$host_atsign" -d "$d" "${additional_args[@]}" "$@"

Variables in np.sh

The idea behind configuring np.sh is to give yourself a sane set of defaults for using sshnp. You can override any of these defaults in the script by passing the flag for sshnp to np.sh. For example:

./np.sh -f @bob - will replace the client_atsign default value with @bob at runtime.

Configuring np.sh

To configure np.sh, simply modify any of the variables surrounded by SCRIPT METADATA and END METADATA.

client_atsign is the default atSign for the -f or --from argument in sshnp.

device_atsign is the default atSign for the -t or --to argument in sshnp.

host_atsign is the default atSign for the -r or --srvd argument in sshnp.

devices is a bash array of all the device names you want quick access to, use a space to separate device names.

additional_args is all of the additional arguments you wish to have enabled for sshnp by default, this is a good place to enable things like -s or -i or -v