I wanted to send this out merely as a documentation to what I've done so next
time I need it I don't have to waste an hour. Hopefully, it will get indexed in
the archives and become googlable and/or Dartware will put out as a KB. Here it
comes:
I wanted to setup iTerm as my helper application in InterMapper Remote client
because Terminal.app drives me bananas
I wanted to right click a device and launch telnet or ssh in iTerm rather than
Terminal (actually ssh doesn't even work in Terminal out of the box, iirc)
So to achieve this I did the following:
- Defined the ${LAUNCHER} as this command exactly as it appears below
osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm"' -e 'activate' -e 'tell the last
terminal' -e 'tell the last session' -e 'write text "
Notice how the quotes don't actually close correctly here. That's because they
will close in the application definition.
- Added "SSH" to the application list and filled it out like so
${TITLE}: SSH
Command Line: ${LAUNCHER} ${PATH} ${ARGS} ${ADDRESS}"' -e 'end tell' -e 'end
tell' -e 'end tell'
${PATH}: /usr/bin/ssh
${ARGS}: -l admin
Notice how the Command Line is actually a continuation of the ${LAUNCHER}
definition.
-l argument will actually log you into your ssh host with the username
specified (in this case it's "admin"). If you don't do this, it will log you in
with your shell username, which almost never will match your host, I guess.
For telnet I modified the existing application entry to:
${TITLE}: Telnet
Command Line: ${LAUNCHER} ${PATH} ${ARGS} ${ADDRESS}"' -e 'end tell' -e 'end
tell' -e 'end tell'
${PATH}: /usr/bin/telnet
${ARGS}:
So the point is that just by modifying the ${PATH} variable you can launch
anything in iTerm:
${PATH}: /usr/sbin/traceroute
${PATH}: /sbin/ping
Bonus:
On Windows I use puTTY.
My Command Line reads: putty ${ARGS} ${ADDRESS}
${PATH}:
${ARGS}: -ssh
Input: ${ADDRESS}
For telnet just change ${ARGS} to be -telnet
I had to add path to putty into my windows $path variable, but could have
probably instead used InterMapper's ${PATH}. I did that because I wanted to
launch putty from the command line just by hitting Windows+R and typing in
putty. Very helpful.
Hopefully, this helps someone.
Enjoy
-andrey
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