pgherveou / nc-link-opener

Open link from remote machine through netcat

nc-link-opener

Simple program to open links from your remote ssh machine, using netcat.

Install

# build project
cargo build -r -p nc-link-opener

# copy to bin
cp target/release/nc-link-opener /usr/local/bin/nc-link-opener 

# Setup launch agent
cargo run -p nc-link-opener-launcher -- 8378 

Test

Usage

Update ~/.ssh/config with RemoteForward to forward port to your machine.

Host my-machine.local
  # nc-link-opener
  RemoteForward 8378 localhost:8378

Configure your remote machine to use a custom open command.

open() {
    echo "$1" | nc -N localhost 8378
}

Test it.

open https://google.com