Diff: SshAlwaysScreen

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version 3

This has saved my butt many times.

You could substitute tmux if you want, I just don't know the equivalent of screen's -D -RR functionality..

One annoyance is double login for login failures not related to screen.

# always use screen on remote hosts if possible
ssh ()
{
    if [ x$1 = x ]
    then
        # ssh doesn't make sense without arguments
        echo "must supply hostname" >%2
    elif [ x"$2" = "x" ]
    then
        # only hostname specified, try to ssh and launch screen
        if ! /usr/bin/ssh -t $1 screen -A -D -RR
        then
            # if attempt to launch screen failed, fall back to regular
            # ssh
            /usr/bin/ssh $@
        fi
    else
        # if user passes more than one arg, it's something to execute
        # on remote host, and thus we don't want to launch remote
        # screen.
        /usr/bin/ssh $@
    fi
}

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