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| xxh | ||
You stuffed command shell with aliases, tools and colors but you lose it all when using ssh. The mission of xxh is to bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh without root access and system installations.
If you like the idea of xxh click ⭐ on the repo and stay tuned.
![[xxh demo]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xxh/static/master/xxh-demo2.gif)
| Portable. Preparing portable shells and plugins occurs locally and then xxh uploads the result to host. No installations or root access on the host required. The security and careful about environment on the host are behind it. | Hermetic. If you delete ~/.xxh directory from the remote host then xxh has never been on the host. By default your home is .xxh directory and you can choose the hermetic level of your xxh session. |
Careful. No blindfold copying config files from local to remote host. Following the privacy and repeatability reasons the better way is to fork the xxh plugin or shell example and pack your configs to it. |
| Be open and fork-ready. Every xxh repo could be forked, customized and reused without waiting for package management system, xxh releases or any third party. Currently supported five shells and the count could be increased by community. | Do more. The xxh packages are not only about shells. Any type of tool or code could be behind entrypoint. If you want to play Super Mario on the remote host just put it as entrypoint in xxh-shell. | Chameleon. Switching the shells as easy as possible and not really needed to use only one shell. Choose your current shell along with task you want to solve: xxh myhost +s xonsh for python environment, osquery for simple querying, fish for modern features or time-tasted zsh and bash. |
Installation methods
PyPi 3
pip3 install xxh-xxh
Homebrew
brew install python3 && pip3 install xxh-xxh
Linux portable binary
mkdir ~/xxh && cd ~/xxh
wget https://github.com/xxh/xxh-portable/raw/master/result/xxh-portable-musl-alpine-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf xxh-portable-musl-alpine-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
./xxh
AppImage
mkdir ~/xxh && cd ~/xxh
wget -O xxh https://github.com/xxh/xxh-appimage/releases/download/continuous/xxh-release-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x xxh && ./xxh
Shells
Currently supported OS is Linux on x86_64.
| xxh-shell | status | plugins | seamless | demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xonsh | stable | pipeliner, bar, autojump, [+] | xxh.xsh |
+ |
| zsh | stable | ohmyzsh, p10k, [+] | xxh.zsh |
+ |
| fish | stable | ohmyfish, fisher, userconfig, [+] | todo | |
| bash | stable | ohmybash, [+] | xxh.bash |
+ |
| osquery | beta | |||
| fish-appimage | alpha |
Search xxh shell on Github or Bitbucket or create your shell entrypoint to use another portable shell.
Prerun plugins
Prerun plugins allow to bring any portable tools, dotfiles, aliases to xxh session before running shell.
Pinned plugins: sudo, dotfiles, docker, python, xxh, vim.
Usage
Use xxh as replace ssh to connecting to the host without changing ssh arguments:
xxh <host from ~/.ssh/config>
xxh [ssh arguments] [user@]host[:port] [xxh arguments]
Common examples (use xxh --help to get info about arguments):
xxh myhost # connect to the host
xxh -i id_rsa -p 2222 myhost # using ssh arguments: port and key
xxh myhost +s zsh # set the shell
xxh myhost +s xonsh +hhh "~" # set /home/user as home directory (read Q&A)
xxh myhost +s bash +I xxh-plugin-bash-vim # preinstall the plugin
xxh myhost +if +q # install without questions in quiet mode
xxh myhost +hh /tmp/xxh +hhr # upload xxh to /tmp/xxh and remove when disconnect
source xxh.zsh myhost +I xxh-plugin-zsh-ohmyzsh # connect in seamless mode with ohmyzsh plugin
To reusing arguments and simplifying xxh usage to xxh myhost there is config file.
Install xxh packages
xxh [+I xxh-package +I ...] [+L] [+RI xxh-package +RI ...] [+R xxh-package +R ...]
Different ways to set the xxh package source:
xxh +I xxh-shell-example # install from https://github.com/xxh
xxh +I https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-example # short url for github only, for other sources use examples below or add support
xxh +I https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-example/tree/mybranch # short url for github only, for other sources use examples below or add support
xxh +I xxh-shell-example+git+https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-example # long url for any git repo
xxh +I xxh-shell-example+git+https://github.com/xxh/xxh-shell-example/tree/mybranch # github only branch support
xxh +I xxh-shell-example+path+/home/user/my-xxh-dev/xxh-shell-example # install from local path
Examples of use cases
Python with pip everywhere without installation
Way 1. Using xonsh
xxh myhost +s xonsh
myhost> python --version
Python 3.8.2
You'll get python-powered xonsh shell with portable python and pip on the host without any system installations on the host. Add plugins: autojump saves time, pipeliner manipulates lines and bar looks nice.
Way 2. Using portable python on any xxh shell
xxh +RI xxh-plugin-prerun-python
xxh myhost +s zsh
myhost> python --version
Python 3.8.2
myhost> pip install pandas
Using xxh-plugin-prerun-python you'll get portable Python AppImage which can be used on host without python and with any xxh shell.
Using docker on host without root access
xxh +RI xxh-plugin-prerun-docker
xxh myhost +if
myhost> xxh-docker-run
myhost> docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND
myhost> docker run --rm hello-world | grep Hello
Hello from Docker!
myhost> xxh-docker-stop
Bring dotfiles to xxh session
There is xxh-plugin-prerun-dotfiles which creates config files when you go to the host using xxh. You can fork it and create your cozy settings once and forever.
Seamless Oh My Zsh (demo)
source xxh.zsh myhost +I xxh-plugin-zsh-ohmyzsh +if +q
This command brings your current Oh My Zsh session theme to the xxh session. If you need more complex settings just fork the xxh-plugin-zsh-ohmyzsh and hack it.
Read host as a table with osquery
$ xxh myhost +s osquery
osquery> SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='news';
+-----+-----+----------+-------------+-----------------+-------------------+
| uid | gid | username | description | directory | shell |
+-----+-----+----------+-------------+-----------------+-------------------+
| 9 | 9 | news | news | /var/spool/news | /usr/sbin/nologin |
+-----+-----+----------+-------------+-----------------+-------------------+
All in one portable home
The xxh is very agile. You can create your own xxh-shell (shell word means it has entrypoint) which has any portable tools
that you could help you on the host. Bash xxh-shell is one of this
platforms that could be forked and stuffed.
Questions and answers
Development
In the xxh-dev repo there is full dockerised environment
for development, testing and contribution. The process of testing and development is orchestrated by xde tool and as
easy as possible.
We have teams. If you're in team it does not oblige to do something. The main goal of teams is to create group of passionate people who could help or support in complex questions. Some people could be expert in one shell and newbie in another shell and mutual assistance is the key to xxh evolution. Ask join.
Thanks
- niess for great linuxdeploy-plugin-python
- probonopd and TheAssassin for hard-working AppImage
- Roman Perepelitsa for incredible statically-linked, hermetic, relocatable Zsh
- Anthony Scopatz, Gil Forsyth, Jamie Bliss, David Strobach, Morten Enemark Lund and @xore for amazing xonsh shell
- Johannes Altmanninger and Fabian Homborg for extensive and portable fish shell