ClusterSHISH

ClusterSHISH controls multiple shells simultaneously on Windows: it lets you drive many ssh sessions from a single input window. It’s certainly not a new idea — many UNIX users are accustomed to ClusterSSH, which does almost the same thing in the UNIX/X11 environment; ClusterSHISH is its Windows counterpart.

Download clustershish.zip

Supported shells

ClusterSHISH works well with console applications, such as OpenSSH for Windows, CMD.EXE or telnet.exe. It also works with the PuTTY terminal emulator (in fact, the author used it with PuTTY most of the time).

Features

• Window transparency control with Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down — see all your shells through the ClusterSHISH window.
• Minimalistic look enabled with Ctrl+Space: only the command entry is visible in this mode.
• Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Z are passed to shell windows.
• Save history to a file whenever you want.

Distinctions from ClusterSSH

• Works on Windows, which is its main raison d’être.
• Entire commands are passed to shells, not keystrokes.
• Shells are started independently and then tied to the running ClusterSHISH instance.
• No “close inactive windows” and the like: ClusterSHISH has no way to know whether a session is inactive.

Free?

Here the LICENSE starts: Umm, yes, it’s free. I certainly want to get a lot of money for this thing, but this desire is not strong enough to pursue some copyright-based business model. Feel free to use, share or reverse-engineer the program as you wish. Here the LICENSE ends.