This is the largest update yet and comes with loads of improvements and changes, some of which might require you to update some connection configurations. There might be some rough edges, but these will be quickly ironed out. So please report any issues you can find!
This update comes with a first attempt of supporting the retrieval of passwords from external sources. Due to the variety of available password managers and formats, I went with the most straightforward approach here which is essentially delegating that task to the CLI of your password manager.
Essentially, you're able to specify a command template to retrieve your passwords. For example, by specifying the command template `mypasswordmgr get $KEY`, you can then choose the password when creating connections by just supplying the key argument. XPipe will call the command, read the password, and supply it from there.
Note that there are several limitations with this implementation as fish does not support an interactive mode in headless environments, resulting in XPipe having to use a fallback shell for certain operations.
This update lays the foundation for future advancements in the command-line interface of XPipe. To start off, it comes with a few new commands to read and write files on remote systems directly from your terminal.
An easy example would be the following: Assume that you have a Windows server with an id of `ssh-windows` and want to filter a file there, but you are missing `grep`. Then you can execute on your local machine: `xpipe drain ssh-windows "C:\myfile.txt" | grep <filter> | xpipe sink ssh-windows "C:\myfile_filtered.txt"`.
The XPipe CLI should be put automatically in your path upon installation, you can test that with `xpipe --help`. Otherwise, you will find it in `<xpipe dir>/cli/bin/xpipe`.
As it turns out, several antivirus programs do not like XPipe and what it is doing with shells. As a result, some of them quarantine XPipe and even the system shells itself as they get confused of who is making the calls.
This update aims to reduce any unexpected issues caused by antivirus programs by automatically detecting whether a problematic antivirus is installed and giving the user the chance to prepare for any upcoming issues.
XPipe can now automatically detect Cygwin and MSYS2 environments on your machine. This also comes with full support of the feature set for these environments
