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Install ggh with Homebrew, Nix

Recall your SSH sessions. Version 0.1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install ggh

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#ggh

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gg/ggh/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Recall your SSH sessions

Commands and aliases

  • ggh

history

Project history and usage

ggh is a lightweight SSH wrapper that remembers SSH invocations and searches entries from a user's SSH configuration.

Project history

The byawitz/ggh repository was created in August 2024 and published its v0.1.0 release the same day. The README identifies GGH as a small wrapper around SSH rather than a replacement for OpenSSH, and the repository later added install scripts and release binaries for Unix-like systems and Windows.

Adoption history

ggh spread through the ordinary small-CLI route: GitHub releases, `go install`, Homebrew packaging, Nix packaging, and AUR packages. Its appeal is practical rather than platform-defining: it gives terminal users a recall list for SSH targets without adopting a heavier connection manager.

How it is used

Practitioners invoke `ggh` like `ssh` for direct connections, run it without arguments to select from previous sessions, run `ggh -` to browse `~/.ssh/config`, and use `--config` or `--history` for non-interactive listing.

Why package nerds care

The package is a good example of a small Go utility that turns shell history and SSH config conventions into a dedicated executable while still depending on the system SSH client.

Timeline

  • 2024: The GitHub repository was created and v0.1.0 was published.
  • 2024: v0.1.4 was published.
  • 2025: v0.1.5 was published.

Related projects

  • ggh is related to OpenSSH and to terminal fuzzy-selection workflows, but it deliberately stays a wrapper around the installed `ssh` executable.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:ssh

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.ssh/config

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
gghcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.1.5
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.1.5

https://github.com/byawitz/ggh

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:ggh
Version0.1.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ggh
Homepagehttps://github.com/byawitz/ggh
Repositoryhttps://github.com/byawitz/ggh
Upstream docshttps://github.com/byawitz/ggh#readme
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/byawitz/ggh/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.5.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameggh
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

ggh

nix profile install nixpkgs#ggh
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Ggh
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gg/ggh/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • lazysshShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, networking, ssh.
  • trzsz-sshShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, ssh, terminal.
  • wishlistShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, ssh, terminal.
  • autosshShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, ssh.
  • boringShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, ssh.
  • corkscrewShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, ssh.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment