generate iterm2 profiles from ~/.ssh/config

[Richard Sugg]

I manage all my connections in ~/.ssh/config so that in iTerm, all my remote connections have the simple command "ssh <server>". ~/.ssh/config takes care of weird ports or different username, etc. I wrote a script that will generate a json file of dynamic profiles by reading in your ~/.ssh/config. 

Save, make executable, run, and you'll have a file "profiles.json" in your iterm2 dynamic profiles directory. 

https://gist.github.com/rsperl/bcc7fbb845b2cf5c260a

If you want to use tags, you can add a comment to the Host line like this:

Host myserver # Tags=tag1, tag2

    HostName myserver.domain.com

    User myusername

    Port 8022

This will create an iterm dynamic profile like this:

[

    ...

    {

         "Guid" : "myserver",

         "Name" : "myserver",

         "Shortcut" : "",

         "Custom Command" : "Yes",

         "Tags" : [

            "tag1",

            "tag2"

         ],

         "Command" : "ssh myserver"

    },

    ....

]

[George Nachman]

This is really cool! Would you be OK releasing it under GPL so I can include it with iTerm2?

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[Richard Sugg]

absolutely! I added a small header to say as much.

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[Richard Sugg]

Absolutely! I've modified the header to say as much.

[Jeremy Wilson]

This generates a file, but iTerm2 doesn't seem to read it in.  How do I get it to recognize it?

[Richard Sugg]

Not sure...As far as I know, as long as the file is in the right location and is the right format, iterm recognizes it. Are you using the 2.9 version of iterm?

[Jeremy Wilson]

> On Aug 18, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Richard Sugg <richa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure...As far as I know, as long as the file is in the right location and is the right format, iterm recognizes it. Are you using the 2.9 version of iterm?

I’m using 1.10 from the website. Where am I supposed to get this 2.9 version?

[Richard Sugg]

that would be the problem. See https://iterm2.com/version3.html

[Dave Wikoff]

Very nice, was looking for something like this - I'll probably make some tweaks so that it is either Opt-in or that it's possible to skip a record and not import it. (I have a lot of servers in my ssh config....)