#794283 mssh: make it configurable, whether a sole argument is a host or an alias

Package:
mssh
Source:
mssh
Description:
tool to administrate multiple servers at once
Submitter:
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date:
2015-07-31 21:06:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#794283#5
Date:
2015-07-31 21:02:00 UTC
From:
To:
Hey Hector.

(AFIACS, you're also the upstream of mssh and it has no upstream bug tracker for feature requests).


Right now, mssh has this command line syntax:

I'd guess the main use case for it is however to use aliases, because who really enters all the hosts always again and again.

When one uses mssh really a lot, having to add that -a is actually annoying ;-)
So it would be nice if there was a new syntax:
and a configuration option that specified what happens if neither -a nor -h is used, i.e. whether it's then an alias or a hostname.

Another way, without config option could be to have this:
and let it simply try as aliases first and only if none of that name is found, hostnames of these names should be tried.


Cheers,
Chris.