# Install csshx with Homebrew, MacPorts

Cluster ssh tool for Terminal.app. Version 0.74 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install csshX.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:csshx
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install csshx
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install csshX
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/csshX/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:csshx
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.74
- **Source summary:** Cluster ssh tool for Terminal.app
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/brockgr/csshx>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/brockgr/csshx>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- csshX (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.74
## Project history and usage

csshX is a Perl cluster-SSH helper for macOS Terminal.app that opens and coordinates SSH sessions across multiple hosts.

### Project history

The upstream README and script identify csshX as a Mac OS X Terminal.app cluster SSH tool, copyright 2011 by Gavin Brock. Its README predates the GitHub-centered packaging era, pointing users to a Google Code project page for releases and to self-contained manual documentation via csshX --man.

### Adoption history

The README describes csshX as a command-line script requiring no special installation beyond placing it on PATH, tested on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.7 with the default Perl installation. That made it easy for Mac administrators to package as a single executable around the system terminal and ssh.

### How it is used

csshX reads host clusters from /etc/clusters and loads settings from /etc/csshrc and ~/.csshrc, while command-line options add hosts, alternate config files, screen placement, ssh arguments, session limits, sorting, and interleaving behavior.

### Why package nerds care

csshX is package-significant as a small, platform-specific admin tool: a single Perl executable, no bundled runtime dependency beyond system Perl, and behavior tied to Terminal.app rather than portable terminal emulators.

### Timeline

- 2011: Upstream script and README carry copyright for Gavin Brock.
- 2011 era: README documents testing on Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7.
- 0.73: GitHub repository tags the 0.73 release.

### Related projects

- csshX is related to ClusterSSH-style tools, SSH fan-out helpers, and other terminal multiplexing utilities used by administrators to run commands across groups of hosts.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/brockgr/csshx/blob/master/README.txt>
- <https://github.com/brockgr/csshx/blob/master/csshX>
- <https://github.com/brockgr/csshx/releases/tag/0.73>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## 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

- macOS: /etc/csshrc, ~/.csshrc, /etc/clusters
## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - csshX: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/csshX/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/csshx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/csshx.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph