Comments on: Command line shortcut for lengthy SSH commands

By: Alaina

Alaina — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:41:36 +0000

I love aliasing, but for this, ~/.ssh/config is an infinitely superior solution.

By: lar3ry

lar3ry — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:45:07 +0000

Here’s a way to do make an alias permanent without having to resort to a text editor in bash:

add_alias ()
{
local aname=$1;
shift;
echo “alias $aname=\”$@\”" | tee >> “$HOME/.bashrc”;
eval “alias $aname=\”$@\”"
}

Once this handy function is in your .bashrc, you can just type:

$ add_alias servername ssh -p 800 username@servername

That will create the alias “servername” and add it to the end of your .bashrc so the next time you start up a terminal session, the alias will be available again.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:06:06 +0000

Use ~/.ssh/config for this sort of thing. Look at

man ssh_config

By: Weaver

Weaver — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:26:21 +0000

not a bad tip, but I think Cedrik must have been living under a rock for 10 years because the alias command has been used in unix for eternity