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Those of us who often use often ssh to login or start remote commands will find this useful:

$ ln -s /usr/bin/ssh-argv ~/bin/$HOST
$ $HOST

You can use the FQDN of the host of course, but a short alias is even more shorter. Put this in your .ssh/config and use the alias for the link:

Host $FQDN $ALIAS
  HostName $FQDN

And yes, you want to put both $FQDN and $ALIAS in the Host line. If you ever add more options to this Host entry you want to apply it to both $FQDN and $ALIAS. If you omit $FQDN the options will only apply to the $ALIAS.

Those of us who often use often ssh to login or start remote commands will find this useful: $ ln -s /usr/bin/ssh-argv ~/bin/$HOST $ $HOST You can use the FQDN...