I want my bashrc settings to be persisted across ssh.

@goodguy5 What do you mean exactly? Like, between SSH sessions, or like if you tunnel from one ssh connection to another?

@goodguy5 Do you have a subset of the things you'd like in a shell script? or is your entire bashrc fair game?

the whole thing, I think

Is pushing the bashrc file to the remote okay if you don't have to do it manually?

less than ideal, but possible

ssh user@host 'bash -s' < ~/.bashrc works and doesn't push the file, but my colleague is giving me a dirty look.

How many remotes do you have to administer or log into?

at least 3

Though you using the words "colleague" and "administer" reminds me that I can ask IT if they have a solution.

They might have a location that gets dist out the home directories. We used to do that kind of thing for the devs.

in our legacy boxes we did, but the new platform doesn't have anything similar setup

Alternatively, you can define an alias or function to run rsync before ssh. Basically rsync --ignore-existing /home/username/.bashrc user@host:/home/username/.bashrc; ssh user@host

Which just copies your bashrc over to the host if it's not there before running ssh.

Kind of a kludge, but would get the job done. I'd call it sssh, because apparently that's "Using ssh like a sausage".

I don't know what that means either, but being a sausage probably isn't good.

it's a tube that you stuff everything into, I dig it

thanks!

rsync --ignore-existing test.sh ec2-user@biggins:/home/ec2-user/test.sh ; ssh ec2-user@biggins

yeah it works for me.

alright, thanks. I think I have enough between here and things on the stack to get it working at least partly how I want.

So I've spent the last 15 years of my life with a song from my early toddlerhood flitting in and out of my head, and I've only FINALLY figured out that it was Sesame Street's rendition of the song "Green Grow the Rushes, O" repurposed to teach how to count, and the amount of mental burden that has just been lifted from me is incalculable.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12!

@G.Moylan This rendition only goes up to 5 though. 🤣

Seriously though, for a literal decade and a half I've been so baffled, like "what the **** is this song??? Like, I know it's a children's song, because duh, and I can perfectly reproduce the melody but all the services to search based on me tone-deafly humming into my microphone can't find it, and I can't search for the lyrics because I'm pretty sure I misremembered half of them, and...."

It...

It has been a struggle.

@Xirema I had that exact experience, except with Kodachrome. Turns out my mum played it on the piano a lot when I was a kid.

The pure relief when I finally heard the song and understood was indescribable.

I've had mini versions of this happening my whole life

I usually find out within the same couple hours or forget it

ok maybe my whole life is an exageration

more like the past 2 or 3 years

and not thaaaat often

XD

but it's definitely happened