Thursday
Feb092012
OS X command line tricks for SSH and serial console connections
One of the things I love about Mac OS X is having the UNIX-like command line available via Terminal. I tend to just use Terminal for ssh and console access to routers and switches and the like. I do however like to have my output automatically logged to a text file, so I created TextExpander snippets to pipe output to the "tee" command with automatically set a date-stampted filename.
For SSH the looks like:
ssh user@11.22.33.44 | tee /Users/klaus/ssh_logs/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-ssh.txt
For console via USB to serial this becomes:
screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1 | tee /Users/klaus/ssh_logs/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-console.txt
Works pretty well so far
tagged os x, tricks | in Apple Geekery
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