tty-keepalive

Simulate tty activity in background to prevent stale/disconnected interactive session (firewall timeout)

features

• background process to keepalive an interactive shell session (ssh connection)
• send OSC Virtual Bell code to tty at defined interval (silently ignored by terminal emulators)
• exits when tty dies

install

Clone the repository or use your package managers with release packages

usage

eval $(tty-keepalive [<SECONDS>])

default <SECONDS>: 120

eval $(tty-keepalive stop)