Telnet bookmarks

[cabbage]

I just downloadedTelnet Launcher which is cool. It's like an FTP site manager except it's for Telnet.

After working a couple days with tech support trying to get a Luminex PowerPress to work I had to telnet into my server and pretty much just keep try about 10 different commands. It's kind of a pain to keep typing these over and over again so I made a text file and was copying and pasting from BBEdit to Terminal.

Has anyone found a program that will bookmark telnet commands? So i can just click on an icon or something and it will send the command to the terminal.

 

[xegan]

there's a few things you can do at the command line (in Terminal)
to minimize your typing.

First of all, you have a command line history, using the up and down
arrow keys. If you are just shuffling between 10 different commands
typed again and again, these arrows (along with auto-complete Tab)
are your friends.

Second, you can modify your shell default setup to add even
more features. There are some threads under the unix/darwin
forum that talk about how to do this. For example, you could
type in "t" then hit the up arrow, and it'll auto-complete
"telnet " if telnet was the last "t" command you used. Then
type in the first letter of your server (say, "h") and hit the up
arrow again, and it auto-completes the rest of your line
"telnet homer.myserver.com" (=4 keystrokes) OR just keep
hitting the arrows to cycle through all your telnet commands.

If you want an icon, you could make a simple applescript passing
your telnet command to the Terminal app. Save out the applescript
as an application, and voila. ...oh, and double-click.

Lastly and leastly is tcsh. It's supposed to be very versatile and powerful,
minimizing keystrokes by miles, IF you can wrap your brain around it.
Thankfully, many of us don't need this kind of unix-grade power.
At least, not often.