How to create SSH ‘bookmarks’ | ViktorPetersson.com

Many people do not know that SSH comes with a bookmarkish feature out-of-the-box. All you need to do is to open up ~/.ssh/config (create it if it doesn’t exist) and add something like this:

host foobar
 hostname aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
 port 2224

(Please note that the second and third lines are indented with a space.)

Now you can SSH into ‘foobar’ by simply typing:

ssh foobar

And voila, you no longer need to remember all arbitrary ports, IPs and hostnames. All you need to remember is your bookmark.

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