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Apple’s Shortcuts with SSH


General Settings for SSH


Shortcuts (a visual scripting application developed by Apple) has a pleasant feature: Run script over SSH.

Host(DDNS or WAN IP Address)
Port(Port opened for SSH)
User(Username on the server)
Authentication(Choose SSH Key for ease)
SSH Key(Choose ed25519)
Input(Leave it empty)

Wake-on-LAN with Apple’s Shortcuts


Prerequisites:

We can call Siri to wake up our computer.

Run script over SSH
cd <path_to_script>
echo "<password>" | sudo -S ./wake.sh

Ignore the first line if the Wake-on-LAN script can be accessed anywhere on the server.
Replace <path_to_script> with the script location.
Replace <password> with the root user’s password.


Nmap Port Scan with Apple’s Shortcuts


Prerequisites:

We can check whether our device MAC address shows up and is available for Wake-on-LAN.

Run script over SSH
cd <path_to_script>
echo "<password>" | sudo -S ./mac-search.sh

Ignore the first line if the Nmap Port Scan script can be accessed anywhere on the server.
Replace <path_to_script> with the script location.
Replace <password> with the root user’s password.


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