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🀘 The native golang ssh client to execute your commands over ssh connection. πŸš€πŸš€

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Golang SSH Client.

Fast and easy golang ssh client module.

Goph is a lightweight Go SSH client focusing on simplicity!

Installation ❘ Features ❘ Usage ❘ Examples ❘ License

πŸš€  Installation and Documentation

go get github.com/melbahja/goph

You can find the docs at go docs.

🀘  Features

  • Easy to use and simple API.
  • Supports known hosts by default.
  • Supports connections with passwords.
  • Supports connections with private keys.
  • Supports connections with protected private keys with passphrase.
  • Supports upload files from local to remote.
  • Supports download files from remote to local.
  • Supports connections with ssh agent (Unix systems only).
  • Supports adding new hosts to known_hosts file.
  • Supports file system operations like: Open, Create, Chmod...
  • Supports context.Context for command cancellation.

πŸ“„  Usage

Run a command via ssh:

package main

import ( "log" "fmt" "github.com/melbahja/goph" )

func main() {

// Start new ssh connection with private key. auth, err := goph.Key("/home/mohamed/.ssh/id_rsa", "") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }

client, err := goph.New("root", "192.1.1.3", auth) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }

// Defer closing the network connection. defer client.Close()

// Execute your command. out, err := client.Run("ls /tmp/")

if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }

// Get your output as []byte. fmt.Println(string(out)) }

πŸ” Start Connection With Protected Private Key:

auth, err := goph.Key("/home/mohamed/.ssh/idrsa", "youpassphrase_here")
if err != nil {
	// handle error
}

client, err := goph.New("root", "192.1.1.3", auth)

πŸ”‘ Start Connection With Password:

client, err := goph.New("root", "192.1.1.3", goph.Password("youpasswordhere"))

β˜› Start Connection With SSH Agent (Unix systems only):

auth, err := goph.UseAgent()
if err != nil {
	// handle error
}

client, err := goph.New("root", "192.1.1.3", auth)

‴️ Upload Local File to Remote:

err := client.Upload("/path/to/local/file", "/path/to/remote/file")

‡️ Download Remote File to Local:

err := client.Download("/path/to/remote/file", "/path/to/local/file")

β˜› Execute Bash Commands:

out, err := client.Run("bash -c 'printenv'")

β˜› Execute Bash Command with timeout:

context, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second)
defer cancel()
// will send SIGINT and return error after 1 second
out, err := client.RunContext(ctx, "sleep 5")

β˜› Execute Bash Command With Env Variables:

out, err := client.Run(env MYVAR="MY VALUE" bash -c 'echo $MYVAR;')

πŸ₯ͺ Using Goph Cmd:

Goph.Cmd struct is like the Go standard os/exec.Cmd.

// Get new Goph.Cmd
cmd, err := client.Command("ls", "-alh", "/tmp")

// or with context: // cmd, err := client.CommandContext(ctx, "ls", "-alh", "/tmp")

if err != nil { // handle the error! }

// You can set env vars, but the server must be configured to AcceptEnv line. cmd.Env = []string{"MY_VAR=MYVALUE"}

// Run you command. err = cmd.Run()

πŸ—’οΈ Just like os/exec.Cmd you can run CombinedOutput, Output, Start, Wait, and ssh.Session methods like Signal...

πŸ“‚ File System Operations Via SFTP:

You can easily get a SFTP client from Goph client:

sftp, err := client.NewSftp()

if err != nil { // handle the error! }

file, err := sftp.Create("/tmp/remote_file")

file.Write([]byte(Hello world)) file.Close()

πŸ—’οΈ For more file operations see SFTP Docs.

πŸ₯™  Examples

See Examples.

🀝  Missing a Feature?

Feel free to open a new issue, or contact me.

πŸ“˜  License

Goph is provided under the MIT License.

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