How to create an ssh connection Terminal shortcut with commands on Mac OS X (Yosemite)

Question

On my Windows PC I got a Putty Batch File that connects to my Pi (SSH - Openelec), authenticates as root, kills a process (hyperiond), and starts it again. I have to use this file frequently because hyperion sometime gets pretty messed up (at least for me).

In Short it does the following:

Connect to 192...... ; 
Authenticate as root with password ; 
Run the commands: killall hyperiond ; 
and /storage/hyperion/bin/hyperiond.sh /storage/.config/hyperion.config.json

I would like to do the same thing with my Macbook. Is there the possibility to create such a "batch" file on Mac with terminal?

Answer 1

yes, there should be sh and ssh on Mac.

• Create a file batch.sh
• Make it executable chmod u+x batch.sh

Content of file:

#!/bin/sh
ssh root@192... "killall hyperiond; /storage/hyperion/bin/hyperiond.sh /storage/.config/hyperion.config.json"

And then run it as ./batch.sh. It should prompt for the password and execute the batch. If you want to get rid of the password, set up the keys:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id root@192...