SSH Amazon Web Services Bash Completion

Bash completion for ssh for Amazon AWS load balancers and instances

Pre-requisites

1. You need a recent version of node.js (and npm, which in recent versions is packaged with node)
2. Make sure your installation of node.js sets the NODE_PATH env variable and it points to your shared NPM node_modules directory
3. Make sure your shared NPM modules bin directory is added to your path, typically /usr/local/share/npm/bin, but sometimes /usr/share/npm/bin (depending on your distribution of node)

Installation

npm install -g git://github.com/jamesbrucepower/ssh-aws-completion.git

Add the following to your bash profile

complete -C ssh-aws-completion ssh

Add the following to your .ssh/config file, replacing

• [USER] with the name of the default destination server username (can still be overridden by user@host)
• [PROXY-USER] with the name of the proxy user

Host %*
    User [USER]
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    ProxyCommand ssh-aws-completion-command [PROXY-USER] %h %p

Usage

Get a complete list of all load balancers

ssh %[TAB]   

Once you have an individual load balancer completed, it will TAB complete on individual hosts

Get a complete list of all instances

ssh ^[TAB]