Automation

For testing or development purposes, I do a wide use of small linux virtual machines. After spawning a new guest (Virtualbox, VMWare or any other), often you want to log on over ssh but you don’t yet know its ip address. You need to login as ‘root’ in the console just to issue a quick ‘ifconfig’, and after writing down the address, you logout and connect with your comfortable terminal. In order to save some time and keystrokes, I put this in my rc.local of all my guest VMs: ...

A quick and dirty way to send a bunch of commands to any ssh device (in my case, Cisco appliances)… create a plain old batch file with commands echoed inside: execute the batch, piping its output to plink.exe (putty command link ssh client): c:\> commands.bat | plink -ssh -l username -pw password 11.22.33.44