backpack

backpack is a small wrapper around ssh.

It transfers contents of a local file ~/.backpack and itself to remote host, sources it and continues with normal ssh session.

• works best as alias ssh=backpack
• won't create any files on remote hosts (even temporary)
• tries to fallback to normal ssh when remote shell is not bash
• self-replication allows you to use backpack again directly from remote host, in this case backpack will keep original local file as you go deaper from host to host.

Example of ~/.backpack file:

PS1="\u \[\033[1;31m\]\h\[\033[0m\] \W "

alias ssh=backpack
alias l="ls -alah"
alias juu="perl -MJSON::PP -E 'local \$/; say JSON::PP->new->pretty(1)->encode(decode_json(<>));'"

human() {
	if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
		numfmt --to=iec "$@"
	else
		cat | numfmt --to=iec "$@"
	fi
}

bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward'
bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'

# I use st terminal, but probably there is no st.info
TERM=xterm-256color

Also check similar project sshrc.