servers

servers_conf="${HOME}/etc/servers.conf"


# format is - alias:user:host:[protocol]:[port]:[shell]


load_servers()
{
    debug_sh=""
	rm -f /tmp/servers.$$
    rm -f /tmp/ls.$$
    sed 's/^[ \t]*//' "${servers_conf}" | grep -v -e "^$" -e "^#"  > /tmp/ls.$$  
    cat "/tmp/ls.$$" | while read -r _line; do
        test -n "$debug_sh" && echo "l = $_line"
        echo "$_line" | awk -F:   '{ 
              if (length($1) && length($2) && length($3) && length($4)) {   
                printf("alias %s=\"%s %s@%s", $1, $4, $2, $3) ;
                if (length($6)) { printf(" -c \\\"%s\\\"\"\n", $6); } else {
                    printf("\"\n"); 
                }
              } }' >> /tmp/servers.$$
    done
    rm -f /tmp/ls.$$
    source /tmp/servers.$$  && rm -f /tmp/servers.$$
}

load_servers

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