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If you have an SSH config file, and don't want to remember all the entries (in my case, with home and work, my list is about 50 entries)

Location: /opt/DBA/scripts/xmen

<code> #!/bin/bash

typeset -i looper=0 typeset -A hostArray

while read comment hostName do

  is_break=`echo $comment | cut -c 1-2`
  if [ ${is_break} == "#_" ]; then
     echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
  else
     looper=$looper+1
     hostArray[$looper]=$hostName
     echo "${looper}) $hostName"
  fi

done «< $(cat ~mlivolsi/.ssh/config | egrep 'Host|#_' | grep -v 'HostName' | grep -v 'StrictHostKeyChecking' | grep -v 'UserKnownHostsFile' | grep -v 'HostKeyAlgorithms' )

echo -e “==⇒ \c” read answer ssh “${hostArray[$answer]}” <code>