NAME

bcvi - Back-channel vi, a shell utility to proxy commands back over ssh

SYNOPSIS

bcvi [options] [<files>]

Options:

DESCRIPTION

This utility works with SSH to allow commands issued on the SSH server host to be 'proxied' back to the SSH client host. For example:

• user sally establishes an SSH connection from her workstation to a server named pluto and runs the command bcvi .bashrc

• bcvi tunnels the details back to sally's workstation which then invokes the command gvim scp://pluto//home/sally/.bashrc

• the result is that sally gets a responsive GUI editor running on her local machine, but editing a file on the remote machine

See perldoc App::BCVI for more examples and background information.

OPTIONS

COMMANDS

The following commands can be passed back to the listener process.

USING BCVI

You'll need to start a listener process on your workstation (perhaps from your window manager session startup).

bcvi -l &

To install the bcvi client to a remote machine:

bcvi --install <hostname>

To ssh to a server with tunnelling enabled:

bcvi --wrap-ssh -- hostname

To enable bcvi on all ssh connections:

alias ssh="bcvi --wrap-ssh --"

On a target server, you'll need to unpack the overloaded TERM variable:

test -n "$(which bcvi)" && eval "$(bcvi --unpack-term)"

To use vi over the back-channel:

bcvi filename

The installation to a remote server should set up aliases, e.g.:

test -n "${BCVI_CONF}"  && alias vi="bcvi"
test -n "${BCVI_CONF}"  && alias bcp="bcvi -c scpd"

PLUGINS

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007-2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.