README.md

Overview

When you reboot a remote machine with sudo reboot now for example, some machines come back up within :20 seconds. Others, it might take a minute or two. Well, instead of hitting up arrow, Enter and seeing:

ssh: connect to host server.example.com port 22: Connection timed out

Instead of using ssh user@host, this function is sshw user@host, as-in "SSH Wait". You'll see a message like this:

Waiting for SSH on [email protected]..............

And it will print a "." every second until the machine is available again, and then SSH's in.

sshw.sh

# Append to your ~/.bashrc to more-elegantly "wait" until an SSH comes back up after a reboot.

sshw() {
  host="$1"
  shift
  echo -n "Waiting for SSH on $host"
  while ! ssh -q "$host" exit; do
    printf "."
    sleep 1
  done
  echo ""  # Print newline once connection is available
  ssh "$host" "$@"
}