xxh/README.md

<p align="center">You chosen a favorite command shell and spent hours to adjust it, to stuffed it with aliases, shortcuts and colors. But when you move from local to remote host using ssh you lose it all. The mission of xxh is to allow you bring your favorite shell with your aliases, shortcuts and color theme wherever you go through the ssh.</p>
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## Install or update
```
python3 -m pip install --upgrade xonssh-xxh
```
After install you can just using `xxh` command as replace `ssh` to connecting to the host because `xxh` has seamless support of basic `ssh` command arguments. 

## Usage
```
$ ./xxh -h
usage: xxh <host from ~/.ssh/config>

usage: xxh [ssh arguments] [user@]host[:port] [xxh arguments]

usage: xxh [-h] [-V] [-p SSH_PORT] [-l SSH_LOGIN] [-i SSH_PRIVATE_KEY] [-o SSH_OPTION -o ...] 
           [user@]host[:port]
           [+i] [+if] [+P PASSWORD] [+PP] [+lh LOCAL_XXH_HOME] [+hh HOST_XXH_HOME] 
           [+he HOST_EXECUTE_FILE] [+s SHELL] [+v] [+vv]

Your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. 

     ____  __________     @    @    
  ______  /          \     \__/     
   ____  /    ______  \   /   \           contribution
 _____  /    / __   \  \ /   _/   https://github.com/xxh/xxh   
   ___ (    / /  /   \  \   /          
        \   \___/    /  /  /                plugins            
     ____\          /__/  /   https://github.com/search?q=xxh-plugin
    /     \________/     /                           
   /____________________/       
```

## Supported shells

Currently supported Python-powered portable [xonsh shell](https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-xonsh-appimage).

Experimental: to use another shell you can create your `xxh-shell` entrypoint like in [xxh-shell-xonsh-appimage](https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-xonsh-appimage) and add `+s` argument to your `xxh` command. 

## Plugins

**xxh plugin** is the set of xsh scripts which will be run when you'll use xxh. You can create xxh plugin with your lovely aliases, tools or color theme and xxh will bring them to your ssh sessions.

🔎 [Search xxh plugins on Github](https://github.com/search?q=xxh-plugin&type=Repositories) or [Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/repo/all?name=xxh-plugin) or 💡 [Create xxh plugin](https://github.com/xxh/xxh-plugin-xonsh-sample)

## Notes

### How it works?

When you run `xxh myhost` command xxh download portable shell and store locally to future use. Then if it needed xxh upload the portable shell, init scripts and plugins to the host. Finally xxh make ssh connection to the host and run portable shell without any system installs and affection on the target host.

## Development
🛠️ In the [xxh-dev](https://github.com/xxh/xxh-dev) repo there is full [docker](https://www.docker.com/)ised environment for development, testing and contribution. The process of testing and development is orchestrated by `xde` tool and as easy as possible.

## Spread the word
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## Thanks
* @scopatz for https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
* @probonopd for https://github.com/AppImage
* @niess for https://github.com/niess/linuxdeploy-plugin-python/
* @gforsyth for https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3374