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Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by arccy »

fcloud wrote: post #147

I intended to post in defense of manpages. I love manpages. I think most open-source manpages are high-quality, and a few are really outstanding. "It's easier to ask an AI" can be true without implying that manpages are bad. However, "man" the tool does have issues, and one of them bit me just now. So, I didn't know about openssh client escapes like ~?. I thought, "surely that's in the manpage?" I opened the manpage…

with neovim as the pager for man, it does find ~?

though you have to be aware of the escapes for regex, so \~?

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by tyilo »

I have set up Ctrl+k to kill (SIGKILL) the front process in my terminal. I just use that for hanging connections and other hanging processes.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by layer8 »

fcloud wrote: post #147

I intended to post in defense of manpages. I love manpages. I think most open-source manpages are high-quality, and a few are really outstanding. "It's easier to ask an AI" can be true without implying that manpages are bad. However, "man" the tool does have issues, and one of them bit me just now. So, I didn't know about openssh client escapes like ~?. I thought, "surely that's in the manpage?" I opened the manpage…

Works for me on Debian (with the default pager, less).

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by spwa4 »

Don't tell people this. In a minute you'll realize that this menu can only mean that ssh runs multiple channels, and so you can start up other things over an established ssh connection. Then the firewall guys will realize that they really can't allow ssh ... let's just not go there. Working at a bank is annoying enough already.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by layer8 »

bandie91 wrote: post #84
andrewflnr wrote: post #45

I've been using the ~. shortcut for a while, but somehow escaped learning about the help menu. Another neat thing I noticed while playing with it just now: there's an option to enter ~ twice to send a literal ~, but usually you don't have to do this when typing something like 'ls ~' in a regular session. Not only does the ~ have to be the first character on a line to start an escape sequence, but typing on a line, ba…

> typing on a line, backspacing all the way to the start and then typing ~ also sends a literal tilde for the younger readers, yes, because in terminal echo mode, "backspacing" does not clear your terminal line buffer, those characters backspaced are already sent on the line. if you ever seen a misconfigured terminal, it hints what's going on, like: user@host$ ls ~/^?^?^?^?^?~/a.out ^? is backspace's control char. th…

Sometimes it’s ^H. You can use `stty -a` to inspect the current setting (backspace is what’s called “erase” there).

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by whydoyoucare »

fcloud wrote: post #147

I intended to post in defense of manpages. I love manpages. I think most open-source manpages are high-quality, and a few are really outstanding. "It's easier to ask an AI" can be true without implying that manpages are bad. However, "man" the tool does have issues, and one of them bit me just now. So, I didn't know about openssh client escapes like ~?. I thought, "surely that's in the manpage?" I opened the manpage…

\~\? works on macOS, as well as CentOS.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by atannen »

The ~ (tilde) escape character in UNIX cu (call UNIX) did the same thing in the 1970s, when the remote system was on the other side of a telephone modem or other serial port. I think it's safe to say that ssh is a descendant of cu. (I don't mean that cu printed a help menu, I mean it had the tilde escape.)

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by fcloud »

fcloud wrote: post #147

I intended to post in defense of manpages. I love manpages. I think most open-source manpages are high-quality, and a few are really outstanding. "It's easier to ask an AI" can be true without implying that manpages are bad. However, "man" the tool does have issues, and one of them bit me just now. So, I didn't know about openssh client escapes like ~?. I thought, "surely that's in the manpage?" I opened the manpage…

Thanks for the suggestions. Invoking man with "-E ascii" fixed this for me.

It sounds like some distributions do have this fixed in their default settings. I'm on Cygwin 3.6.6; maybe it's mostly a Cygwin thing.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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Post by fdgdd »

fcloud wrote: post #147

I intended to post in defense of manpages. I love manpages. I think most open-source manpages are high-quality, and a few are really outstanding. "It's easier to ask an AI" can be true without implying that manpages are bad. However, "man" the tool does have issues, and one of them bit me just now. So, I didn't know about openssh client escapes like ~?. I thought, "surely that's in the manpage?" I opened the manpage…

I don't know about it changing your characters, but you can search for a string verbatim by pressing ctrl-r at the start of the search pattern, like this:

  /~?
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