Yup, this is exactly how I use it on my Linux systems. I have a bash
function that exists in my .bashrc that ssh's back to my mac and starts
bbedit with a commandline to open the relevant file via sftp.
Here's the snipit from by .bashrc:
export REMOTEHOST=`echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
export HOSTIP=`echo $SSH_CONNECTION | cut -d ' ' -f 3`
function bbedit {
# bbedit won't open a remote file via sftp if it doesn't exist. So, if it's
a new file
# create it, call bbedit to open, and then kill it.
FCREATED=0
if [ ! -e "$PWD/$1" ]
then
touch "$PWD/$1"
FCREATED=1
fi
ssh derosier@$REMOTEHOST /usr/local/bin/bbedit -c -u --front-window
"sftp://$USER@$HOSTIP/$PWD/$1";
# The above call will background and return immediately. The file will open
in bbedit
# but since we've created it, and we don't want to leave it around, we kill
it right away.
# If the user saves it, it gets recreated and content is saved. If not,
there's no file,
# so we're cool too. It's a bit odd, but it works.
if [ "$FCREATED" -eq "1" ]
then
rm "$PWD/$1"
fi
}
The really important part is the ssh line. The rest is just to
create/clear new files. If you do `bbedit .` it will open an sftp browser
in that directory, and if you do `bbedit filename` it will open that file.
The other important thing to note is I have my .ssh/config file set to
always use IPv4 on these hosts. I'm sure I could fix it but IPv6 screws it
up and I haven't bothered to figure out why.
Additionally, I have bbedit used as my CSCOPE_EDITOR. This can't use
functions, so I have a little script, ~/bin/bbeditcscope that contains this
one line:
ssh derosier@$REMOTEHOST /usr/local/bin/bbedit --front-window $1
"sftp://$USER@$HOSTIP/$PWD/$2";
Note that this really only works properly with current versions of BBEdit
as they recently fixed a bug for me (talk about good customer service) that
relates to the line number syntax.
I hope that helps,
- Steve
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:41 PM Rick Gordon <li...@rickgordon.com> wrote:
> Is there any way that a bbedit command could be built to run in Terminal
> on a remote system? I realize that it would have to be a different
> creature, since that system would have no knowledge of BBEdit.
>
> But I wondered about something like a command which might cause a file
> to be delivered to the Mac via scp in to a watch folder on the Mac that
> BBEdit could monitor, open, edit, and return the edited file to the host
> system, with a result similar to opening a remote file via SSH on the Mac.
>
> The end result would be an executable that could be stored on the host
> system and run similar to the basic syntax for the command-line
> executable as used on the Mac, such as:
>
> bbedit path-to-file
>
> Does that even make any sense, in term of logistics?
>
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