ssh feature - ignore colon in host name

[Christian Iversen]

On 2010-02-19 12:21, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> sorry if this has been discussed and rejected before, I'm new to the
> list, I did google but didn't find anything.
> --
>
> quite often I use ssh and scp within a few minutes, so I might do this...
>
>     scp myfile user at host.example.com:
>     ssh user at host.example.com
>
> it would make life a lot easier if I could type
>     scp myfile user at host.example.com:
>     ssh !$
>
> or sometimes I simply copy too much and paste in host name and then have
> the faff of removing it. ok, that's a particularly bad example of being
> lazy :-)
>
> for the above to work, ssh would have to ignore the colon, that's all. I
> don't think the colon can have any significance in the hostname, so
> throwing it away wouldn't be harmful!?
>
> I could write a wrapper script, but I'm lazy, and figured it would be
> nicer if ssh could simply have this quick hack... please

This, as others have mentioned, does not belong in ssh.

However, you can very easily do this without creating a wrapper script. 
Just add the following to your .zshrc (or rewrite for other shells):

function ssh()
{
     /usr/bin/ssh $@[1,-2] ${@[-1]%:}
}

This will invoke (the real) ssh with all the positional arguments, 
except ":" will be removed from the last argument, if present.

No extra files needed, no wrapper scripts, no measurable performance 
hit, standard ssh software.

Better solution in my book :)

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Med venlig hilsen
Christian Iversen