This document is not up to date. For the time being, please refer to Clouds of Trust - this article reflects the current state of the project.

Contents

• ttab — open a new Terminal.app / iTerm2.app tab or window
• Installation
  • Installation from the npm registry
  • Manual installation
• Examples
• Usage
• License
  • Acknowledgements
  • npm dependencies
• Changelog

lnet — get SSH access to a box behind a router

A box behind a router can be a leaf and/or a hub. A leaf can not accept external SSH connections, but can connect to a hub. A hub can accept external connections from one or more leaves. It can also have "local" SSH access to any leaf. The lnet utility helps to configure and maintain the leaf - hub communications, so that all leaves appear to be localhosts to a hub. Localized networking! To enable it, install the utility on all your boxes and run it on all your leaves.

How many words is the following "picture" worth?

    1. Remote port forwarding
     ________________________
    /                        \
   |                          V
+------+  2. Local access  +-----+
| leaf |<------------------| hub |
+------+                   +-----+

1. ssh -R llp:localhost:lp hip hs
2. ssh -p llp localhost

hip: <hub-ip>
hs : <hub-script>
llp: <leaf-local-port>
lp : <leaf-port> - MUST be 22 for step 2 above to work

It shows an example of the functionality this utility supports: after a leaf has established an SSH connection with a hub, the hub can establish its own SSH connection to the leaf.

Installation

Important:

• This utility requires the GatewayPorts yes line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the hub, and the ExitOnForwardFailure yes line in /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the leaf. Do not forget to sudo service ssh restart after /etc/ssh/sshd_config is changed!
• This utility uses node from Node.js to run, and expects to find it in /usr/local/bin - please provide a symbolic link!

Installation from github.com

To get the latest:

mkdir $HOME/project; cd $HOME/project
git clone https://github.com/amissine/lnet.git

You can now cd lnet; test/00\ localhost\ connectivity.sh (more on tests below).

Installation from the npm registry

With Node.js or io.js installed, install from the npm registry:

[sudo] npm install ttab -g

Note:

• Whether you need sudo depends on how you installed Node.js / io.js and whether you've changed permissions later; if you get an EACCES error, try again with sudo.
• The -g ensures global installation and is needed to put ttab in your system's $PATH.

Manual installation

• Download this bash script as ttab.
• Make it executable with chmod +x ttab.
• Move it to a folder in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin.

Examples

# Open a new tab in the current terminal window.
ttab

# Open a new tab in a new terminal window.
ttab -w 

# Open a new tab and execute the specified command before showing the prompt.
ttab ls -l "$HOME/Library/Application Support"

# Open a new tab and execute *multiple* commands in it - note how the entire
# command line is specified as *single, quoted string*.
ttab 'git branch; git status'

# Open a new tab, switch to the specified dir., then execute the specified 
# command before showing the prompt.
ttab -d ~/Library/Application\ Support ls -1 

# Open a new tab with title 'How Green Was My Valley' and settings 'Grass'.
ttab -t 'How Green Was My Valley' -s Grass

# Open a new tab and execute the specified script before showing the prompt.
ttab /path/to/someScript 

# Open a new tab, execute the specified script, and exit.
ttab exec /path/to/someScript

# Open a new tab, execute a command, wait for a keypress, and exit.
ttab 'ls "$HOME/Library/Application Support"; echo Press a key to exit.; read -rsn 1; exit'

# Open a new tab in iTerm2 (if installed).
ttab -a iTerm2 echo 'Hi from iTerm2.'

Usage

Find concise usage information below; for complete documentation, read the manual online, or, once installed, run man ttab (ttab --man if installed manually).

$ ttab --help


Opens a new terminal tab or window in OS X's Terminal application or iTerm2.

    ttab [-w] [-s <settings>] [-t <title>] [-q] [-g|-G] [-d <dir>] [<cmd> ...]

    -w                  open new tab in new terminal window
    -s <settings>       assign a settings set (profile)
    -t <title>          specify title for new tab
    -q                  clear the new tab's screen
    -g                  create tab in background (don't activate Terminal/iTerm)
    -G                  create tab in background and don't activate new tab
    -d <dir>            specify working directory; -d '' disables inheriting
                        the current dir.
    -a Terminal|iTerm2  open tab or window in Terminal.app / iTerm2  
    <cmd> ...           command to execute in the new tab
    "<cmd> ...; ..."    multi-command command line (passed as single operand)

Standard options: --help, --man, --version, --home

License

Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Michael Klement [email protected] (http://same2u.net), released under the MIT license.

Acknowledgements

This project gratefully depends on the following open-source components, according to the terms of their respective licenses.

npm dependencies below have optional suffixes denoting the type of dependency; the absence of a suffix denotes a required run-time dependency: (D) denotes a development-time-only dependency, (O) an optional dependency, and (P) a peer dependency.

npm dependencies

• doctoc (D)
• json (D)
• marked-man (D)
• replace (D)
• semver (D)
• tap (D)
• urchin (D)

Changelog

Versioning complies with semantic versioning (semver).

• v0.6.0 (2017-06-21):

  • [enhancement] -d '' now prevents ttab from implicitly changing to what it thinks the working directory should be; useful for creating tabs/windows that set their own working directory.

• v0.5.1 (2017-03-23):

  • [doc] Sample command fixed.
  • [dev] Reliability of tests improved.

• v0.5.0 (2016-10-01):

  • [new feature] -q now allows clearing the "screen" of the new tab after opening using clear, assuming any command (list) passed succeeded.
  • [enhancement] A quoted multi-command shell command string can now be specified as a single - and only - operand, without having to precede with an explicit eval command.
  • [behavior change] If no custom title is specified with -t <title>, no attempt is made anymore to auto-derive a meaningful tab title from the shell command specified, as there is no heuristic that works well in all cases.
  • [fix] Issue #7: iTerm2 now also preserves the current working dir. when opening a new tab in the current window.

• v0.4.0 (2016-09-13):

  • [enhancement] -a Terminal|iTerm2 now allows specifying the target Terminal application, which is useful for launching ttab from non-terminal applications such as Alfred.
  • [fix] Specifying a syntactically invalid shell command to execute in the new tab now causes ttab to report a nonzero exit code.

• v0.3.1 (2016-06-03):

  • [enhancement] Support for iTerm2 v3 added (whose AppleScript syntax changed fundamentally)
  • [enhancement] Setting a tab title is now also supported in iTerm2 v2.

• v0.3.0 (2016-05-04):

  • [enhancement] Experimental support for iTerm2 (iTerm.app) added.

• v0.2.1 (2015-09-15):

  • [dev] Makefile improvements; various other behind-the-scenes tweaks.

• v0.2.0 (2015-09-14):

  • [enhancement] You can now use embedded (escaped, if necessary) double-quotes inside a multi-command string passed via eval.
  • [doc] If installed via the npm registry, a man page is now installed (view with man ttab); if installed manually, ttab --man shows a plain-text version. ttab -h now only prints concise, single-page usage information.

• v0.1.8 (2015-09-11):

  • [doc] Incorrect new-window option corrected in examples.
  • [doc, dev] Read-me improved together with the Makefile to turn off syntax highlighting for the CLI help chapter.

• v0.1.7 (2015-06-26):

  • [doc] Read-me: npm badge changed to shields.io; license badge added.
  • [dev] Makefile updated.

• v0.1.6 (2015-06-01):

  • [doc] Read-me improvements; typo in CLI usage help fixed.

• v0.1.5 (2015-06-01):

  • [doc] Improved CLI usage help.

• v0.1.4 (2015-06-01):

  • [doc] Improved CLI usage help; keywords added to package.json.
  • [dev] make browse now opens the GitHub repo in the default browser.

• v0.1.3 (2015-06-01):

  • [fix] The -g and -G options again correctly do not activate Terminal.app when creating the desired tab.
  • [enhancement] Option parsing now accepts option-arguments directly attached to the option.
  • [dev] Tests added.

• v0.1.2 (2015-06-01):

  • [doc] Manual-installation link and instructions fixed; examples fixed.

• v0.1.1 (2015-06-01):

  • [doc] README.md improved with respect to manual installation instructions.

• v0.1.0 (2015-06-01):

  • Initial release.