purple-ssh 1.1.0

Features

🚀 TUI host launcher — navigation, search, filter, connect with Enter

🔄 Round-trip SSH config — reads and writes ~/.ssh/config without losing comments, formatting or unknown directives

🏷️ Tags — label hosts with #tags, filter with tag picker or search

☁️ Cloud provider sync — pull servers from DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode and Hetzner into your SSH config

📂 Include support — displays hosts from Include files (read-only)

📡 Ping — TCP connectivity check per host or all at once

🔍 Search — fuzzy filter on alias, hostname, user, tags and provider

📊 Connection history — frecency-based sorting (most used / most recent)

📥 Bulk import — from hosts file or ~/.ssh/known_hosts

🔑 SSH key management — key browser with metadata and host linking

📋 Clipboard — copy SSH command or config block to clipboard

♻️ Auto-reload — detects external config changes and reloads automatically

Safe by default

🔒 Atomic writes — temp file, chmod 600, rename. No half-written configs.

💾 Automatic backups — every write creates a timestamped backup. Keeps the last 5.

🎨 Monochrome UI — works in any terminal, any font. Respects NO_COLOR.

🐚 Shell completions — bash, zsh and fish.

Install

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install erickochen/purple/purple

Cargo

cargo install purple-ssh

From source

git clone https://github.com/erickochen/purple.git && cd purple && cargo build --release

Usage

purple                              # Launch the TUI
purple myserver                     # Connect or search
purple -c myserver                  # Direct connect
purple --list                       # List all hosts
purple add deploy@10.0.1.5:22      # Quick-add a host
purple import hosts.txt             # Bulk import from file
purple import --known-hosts         # Import from known_hosts
purple provider add digitalocean    # Configure cloud provider
purple sync                         # Sync all providers
purple sync --dry-run               # Preview sync changes
purple --completions zsh            # Shell completions

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