Remote Development Manager
An experimental Go application that allows an SSH session to interact with the clipboard of the host machine and forward calls to open
. RDM works by listening on a unix socket locally that can be forwarded to an SSH session.
So far the server only works on macOS, but the client commands are not OS specific.
Installation
The easiest way to install rdm is to download the latest release for your platform. Alternatively, you can build it yourself with go build main.go
.
e.g. for a Linux server you can use wget
to download the binary then put it somewhere in your $PATH
:
wget https://github.com/BlakeWilliams/remote-development-manager/releases/download/latest/rdm-linux.amd64
mv rdm-linux.amd64 /usr/local/bin/rdm
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdm
Usage
The following is an example of forwarding an rdm server to a remote host: ssh -R 127.0.0.1:7391:$(rdm socket) [email protected]
. It's worth noting the port number is not currently configurable and will always attempt to connect to 7391
.
Server commands:
rdm server
- hosts a server locally (macOS only) so that your machine can receive copy, paste, and open commands.rdm close
- attempts to close a running server.rdm logpath
- returns the path where server logs are located. Useful fortail $(rdm logpath)
rdm socket
- returns the path where the server socket lives. Useful for SSH commands, as seen above.
Client commands:
rdm copy
- reads stdin and forwards the input to the host machine, adding it to the clipboard. e.g.echo "hello world" | rdm copy
rdm paste
- reads and prints the host machine's clipboard.rdm paste
rdm open
- forwards the first argument toopen
. e.g.rdm open https://github.com/blakewilliams/remote-development-manager
TO-DO
So far this is just an experiment and there's a lot to be done to get it to a stable point. Contributions are very welcome.
- Add test coverage
- Daemonize the server process
- Add a configuration file that allows custom commands