ssh_config

This is a Go parser for ssh_config files. Importantly, this parser attempts to preserve comments in a given file, so you can manipulate a ssh_config file from a program, if your heart desires.

Example usage:

f, _ := os.Open(filepath.Join(os.Getenv("HOME"), ".ssh", "config"))
cfg, _ := ssh_config.Decode(f)
for _, host := range cfg.Hosts {
    fmt.Println("patterns:", host.Patterns)
    for _, node := range host.Nodes {
        fmt.Println(node.String())
    }
}

// Write the cfg back to disk:
fmt.Println(cfg.String())

The ssh_config program will attempt to read values from $HOME/.ssh/config, falling back to /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

port := ssh_config.Get("myhost", "Port")

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