LibreOffice writer: Make an Hyperlink that opens an ssh - macros

I was wondering if it's possible to create something like a hyperlink in a LibreOffice document that when called, opens a terminal ssh-ing to the selected "hyperlinked?" IP
The issue is that from time to time, I need to connect via ssh to remote machines. I have a LibreOffice .odt (writer) document with a list of those machines IPs'. I'd like to make it so I can click on one of the IPs and it automatically opens a gnome-terminal with an ssh connection to it. Mainly just to avoid having to open a terminal and type ssh myusername#what.ever.ip
I have created a macro that seems to work:
Sub OpenSSH(remoteIP as Integer, Optional remoteSSHPort as Integer)
If IsMissing(remoteSSHPort) then
remoteSSHPort = 22
End if
sshCommand = "gnome-terminal --command 'ssh -Y -p " + remoteSSHPort + " myusername#" + remoteIP + "'"
Shell(sshCommand)
End Sub
This seems to be working for what I need. Now, I would like to go to my LibreOffice document, select one of the IPs I have listed there, and do something like "Run the 'OpenSSH' routine with the selected ip as a parameter'
I don't really need anything fancy, or having the macro sending passwords or complex things like that. I just need it to open a gnome-terminal running the ssh command.
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 with LibreOffice 3.4.4. And I am a total newbie to the intricate (to me) macros world.
Thank you in advance.

Yes this should be possible. You just need to use the macro URL in the hyperlink.
I use the following URL in one of Libreoffice Calc's automatic tests:
vnd.sun.Star.script:Standard.Module1.Macro1?language=Basic&location=document
As much as I remember the syntax should be protocol:Package.Module.Method
I'm not sure if the rest is neccesary for you.

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Can a command be send to VSCode, directly from the integrated terminal (integrated terminal -> VSCode API)?

Hi I would like to know whether one could call a VSCode command from the integrated terminal. So basically is the terminal aware of VSCode and can they communicate (at least from terminal => VSCode)
My Usecase: I would like to have H and L, to move to editor tab left / right of the terminal (I am using the terminal in an editor tab). Additionally, I would like that to happen when I am in vim normal mode in my zsh.
So I would like, when I am in normal mode and press H that the terminal sends an editor.tabNext (or whatever the command is) to VSCode.
I think I found a workaround at least. There is an extension called Remote Control (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eliostruyf.vscode-remote-control&ssr=false#review-details), with which I can send arbitrary commands to VSCode, so this seems to work. Proabably natively this is not possible, but maybe someone knows something.
EDIT1:
Here is my setup now:
if [ ! -z $VSCODE ]; then
_sendcmd() { echo "{ \"command\": \"workbench.action.$1\" }" | websocat ws://localhost:4242 }
# define commands and register them in zsh
editor_left() { _sendcmd previousEditor }; zle -N editor_left;
editor_right() { _sendcmd nextEditor }; zle -N editor_right;
bindkey -a H editor_left
bindkey -a L editor_right
fi
where $VSCODE is defined in VSCode through terminal.integrated.env = { "VSCODE": "1" }. May this make you as happy as it makes me happy.
Yes you can do this but it will require writing a simple extension and there is one flaw with it.
If you write a VSCode extension there is an API that will set environment variables in new terminals.
export function activate(context: ExtensionContext) {
...
context.environmentVariableCollection.replace("REMOTE_CONTROLL_EXTENSION_IPC_PATH", ipcPath);
What you do is create a Unix socket (or named pipe on Windows) and pass it into that environment variable. Then in your shell you can just send data to that socket.
This is much better than the approach used by the Remote Control extension that Dimfred mentioned - it's more secure and doesn't rely on known fixed ports, which means you're going to run into issues e.g. if they don't get closed properly or you run multiple copies of VSCode.
The only downside I've found with this approach is that if restart VSCode, then the socket will be closed but VSCode will try to restore shell sessions. Those shell sessions will be left with an old REMOTE_CONTROLL_EXTENSION_IPC_PATH value which points at a non-existent socket.
I'm not sure of a way around that yet.
Edit: Actually all you need to do is ensure your Unix socket path is tied to a workspace. At least this is what the built in Git extension does. See createIPCServer(). It uses storagePath which is specific to a workspace. It also unlinks the socket at that path (if any) when it starts.
I initially thought that might cause issues if you open the same workspace twice in two windows, but VSCode won't let you do that.

How to write a Powershell script to update a DNS server using BIND tools and nsupdate?

I recently started coding a DNS updater which takes the parameters of {operation} {domain} {TTL} {Type} {target}. And before I continue with it, I wanted to write a Powershell script to test if with it I can take these parameters and for DNS to either modify, delete or add a record.
The steps should go as follows:
C:/Users/User> nsupdate
> server 10.10.10.10
> update add mydomain.example.com 86400 A 10.1.1.1
> send
I couldn't manage to find much on this topic, mostly just for bash. If you got any pointers and guidance information please point me in the right direction :)
PS: I got Bind-toolsonly installed on my Windows 10 machine
You can put all your 3 commands in a file and direct nsupdate to read it as nsupdate commands.txt or just send them over STDIN.
I do not know the syntax of Powershell but under an Unix shell it will be something like that which you could probably easily translate:
echo -e "server 10.10.10.10\nupdate add mydomain.example.com 86400 A 10.1.1.1\nsend" | nsupdate

Send tmux command to tmuxinator

Specifically, I need to create a profile that by default will have a small pain displaying the clock, which can be triggered with C-b t. However, I couldn't find the way to do that.
In this GitHub issue comment, a Collaborator of the project said it could be defined like a regular command, but on my ZSH setup, it just didn't work, saying "zsh: Command not found: C-b".
Does anyone happen to know how I can achieve this?
Thanks!!!
windows:
- work:
panes:
- tmux clock-mode
- ipython
Below is what happens when typing tmux clock-mode inside tmux session:
current tmux client connect to tmux server
attach to current(or the most recently) session
since the -t argument is omitted, the currently active pane in the current window is used for the clock-mode command.
Checkout the session in $man tmux for more detail.
COMMANDS
This section contains a list of the commands supported by tmux. Most commands accept the optional -t argument with one of target-client, target-session
target-window, or target-pane. These specify the client, session, window or pane which a command should affect. target-client is the name of the pty(7)
file to which the client is connected, for example either of /dev/ttyp1 or ttyp1 for the client attached to /dev/ttyp1. If no client is specified, the
current client is chosen, if possible, or an error is reported. Clients may be listed with the list-clients command.

Save PuTTY output to file from command-line

Is there any way to save the PuTTY output to a file using the command line? I know this is easily done using the GUI but in my case it has to be done automatically.
What I'm working on:
User clicks batch file -> starts PuTTY, automatically connects to my device over SSH and runs a bunch of commands -> PuTTY should save the output to a file.
The last part I can't get working. Is there any command to do this?
This can be done with putty. The answer is little late considering the time the questions was asked, however this might help someone.
In putty, using GUI, you can save sessions with logging option on, as shown below.
Enter Host Name, Name the session, Go to Logging Option in the left top corner, select all sessions, provide log file name and location, go back to Session tab, click on the save button. Done, you have saved a session.
Now open CMD and write the command as below
You are done. Every time this session is invoked, the commands and output will be logged.
Hope this helps.
The specific program putty is not designed for this. Instead use plink, a different program in the PuTTY suite,
which uses the same session settings and keys as putty but gets input from stdin and puts output to stdout,
both of which can be redirected in the usual ways. See http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.63/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink .
As mentioned in previous answer, use plink for this.
Make sure it is in your environment path, by typing
plink -V
in your console. If it returns a version number, then you know it is in environment path variables. If it doesn't, probably best to fix this first. There are plenty of good SO answers to help you with this. Failing that, use the full path to your plink.exe in the CLI command that follows.
Then use plink to open your ssh connection, with the option -v set to provide verbose output. Finally, this all needs to be piped to a log file.
The complete cli command that I use is
plink -v username#xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > ssh-output.log 2>&1
Open up the file ssh-ouput.log to see the results.
Expanding on Dave's and Charlie's answers...
Apart from making sure plink is in the path, also check whether you have write access to local ouput file.
This is how you redirect command output from remote machine to local file with plink. In this example we store an output from man page for nfcapd:
plink joe#192.168.50.50 -pw joespassword man nfcapd > output.log 2>&1
The first time you try to access the server, it will ask you store key in cache. So make sure to access the machine at least once before:
plink joe#192.168.50.50 -pw joespassword
The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
think it is.
...
Store key in cache? (y/n)

Is it possible to have Perl run shell script aliases?

Is it possible to have a Perl script run shell aliases? I am running into a situation where we've got a Perl module I don't have access to modify and one of the things it does is logs into multiple servers via SSH to run some commands remotely. Sadly some of the systems (which I also don't have access to modify) have a buggy SSH server that will disconnect as soon as my system tries to send an SSH public key. I have the SSH agent running because I need it to connect to some other servers.
My initial solution was to set up an alias to set ssh to ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no, but Perl runs the ssh binary it finds in the PATH instead of trying to use the alias.
It looks like the only solutions are disable the SSH agent while I am connecting to the problem servers or override the Perl module that does the actual connection.
Perhaps you could put a command called ssh in PATH ahead of the ssh which runs ssh as you want it to be run.
Alter the PATH before you run the perl script, or use this in your .ssh/config
Host *
PubkeyAuthentication no
Why don't you skip the alias and just create a shell script called ssh in a directory somewhere, then change the path to put that directory before the one containing the real ssh?
I had to do this recently with iostat because the new version output a different format that a third-party product couldn't handle (it scanned the output to generate a report).
I just created an iostat shell script which called the real iostat (with hardcoded path, but you could be more sophisticated), passing the output through an awk script to massage it into the original format. Then, I changed the path for the third-party program and it started working fine.
You could declare a function in .bashrc (or .profile or whatever) with that name. It could look like this (might break):
function ssh {
/usr/bin/ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no "$#"
}
But using a config file might be the best solution in your case.