muscat

README

muscat

muscat is a utility to use local machine's clipboard and browser from remote machine. heavily inspired by github.com/lemonade-command/lemonade muscat uses not tcp but unix domain socket to communicate between client and server. you must use ssh remote forwarding of unix domain socket.

Usage

SSH config

Host forward-workbench
  Hostname workbench.remote.local
  RemoteForward /home/<remote_user>/.muscat.socket /Users/<local_user>/.muscat.socket
  ExitOnForwardFailure yes

Useful sshd config

StreamLocalBindUnlink yes

start server

$ muscat server

copy from stdin

$ echo foobar | muscat copy

paste to stdout

$ muscat paste

open URI with local browser

$ muscat open 'https://example.com'

Tips

muscat can behave as pbcopy, pbpaste, xdg-open. you can create symbolic link as their name and call with.

Documentation

Overview

Copyright © 2022 Shinnosuke Sawada <6warashi9@gmail.com>

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