george

A command-line toolkit for Laravel Forge.

Getting started

Installing a binary for Windows or Linux

Choose a binary from releases, download it and move it to a directory that's in your PATH environment variable.

If you're on Windows, you should use george with Git Bash or another bash-like shell with the ssh command and the ~/.ssh directory available.

Installing with Go

First, make sure you have Go installed. Then, install george with:

go get -u github.com/zippoxer/george

If you get george: command not found, then add $GOPATH/bin (default for linux is $HOME/go, for Windows %USERPROFILE%\go) to your PATH and try again.

Logging in to Forge

Finally, login with API key provided at https://forge.laravel.com/user/profile#/api

george login "<Forge API Key>"

Commands

SSH

Quickly SSH into a server or site. No need to register your SSH key, george automatically registers your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub into Forge.

$ george ssh www.example.com

If you've typed in a site domain, george will drop you right into it's laravel directory!

forge@example-server:~/www.example.com.il$ php artisan fix-website

You can also SSH into a server by it's name or IP address:

george ssh server-name
george ssh 128.64.32.16

MySQLDump

Tired of using ssh, mysqldump & rsync only to dump your site's database? Don't worry, george has got you covered!

A single command to dump a site's database:

george mysqldump www.example.com > example.sql

Behind the scenes, george compresses the stream with gzip to transfer the dump even faster.

Log

Print a site's laravel.log:

george log www.example.com

For better viewing experience, you might want to open laravel.log with Visual Studio Code:

george log www.example.com | code -

Behind the scenes, george compresses the transfer of the log file with gzip, so even large log files should open within seconds.

Sequel Pro (Mac only)

Opens a site database in Sequel Pro.

george sequelpro www.example.com

WinSCP (Windows only)

Opens an SFTP connection to a site or server in WinSCP.

george winscp www.example.com

About automatic SSH key registration

Before george connects to a server for the first time, it registers your default public SSH key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) using Forge's API. Unless you switch your SSH key, george only registers you once per server.

How it works

Since the registered key is named after a SHA-2 hash of your public SSH key (GEORGE_<hash of your public key>), the next time you connect to the same server, george will notice you're already registered and continue without registering you again.