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preventing the screen from being cleared when exiting an ssh session

I have rdist set up to push out some of my dot files to all the remote machines that I need to ssh into. I also have zsh as my default shell on all of those machines. When I ssh into a machine and ...
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SSH to two addresses, use the one that connects first

I have a home computer (let’s call it franklin because that’s what I call it) that I often ssh into from my work laptop. When I’m at home, I ssh to franklin.local, and when I’m at work or anywhere ...
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How to append / extend zshell completions?

I am using zsh with oh-my-zsh. Unfortunately, oh-my-zsh does not use file ~/.ssh/config for hostname auto-completion (see Issue #1009, for instance). This could easily archived by the following code: ...
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Bash Auto-Completion feature for SSHing into Different Hosts

I have big list of servers which I normally ssh to all the time. Is there any way using bash or zsh so that I can keep the list of hostname and bash auto-completion goes through the file and gives me ...
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I messed up my zshrc on a remote server and now I can't run any commands!

On a remote machine I changed my zsh settings and it is now broken, for every keypress it says: "url-quote-magic:1: url-quote-magic: function definition file not found " I don't have another ...
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SSH “command not found” for Zsh

Im using Zsh on the client and server. When I use ssh to run a command on the remote server it can not find the binary: ssh gt "cd /home/****/app/staging && bundle exec rake db:migrate ...
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Read first line of a command's output. Command connects me to a remote terminal

Part 1 Say I have a command my_command that outputs multiple lines. I would like to capture the first line of my_command's output as soon as it's ready in a script, while keeping my_command ...
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How can I detect if the shell is controlled from SSH?

I want to detect from a shell script (more specifically .zshrc) if it is controlled through SSH. I tried the HOST variable but it's always the name of the computer which is running the shell. Can I ...
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ssh-agent error on ubuntu server 10.04 LTS

I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 installation on Linode. I am trying to use ssh-agent to stop typing my passphrase everytime I need to push some changes to GitHub. I am using the script provided by ...
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scp, globbing, and different shells

The other day at work I tried doing scp remotehost:~/*.txt . and I received an error about the *, *.txt file not found sorry, not at work and I forget the exact error on my workstation I run zsh ...