rns.recipes

rnns is an extremely simple script that helps one locally resolve names to
RNIDs.

#!/bin/sh

RN_NAME_FILE=${RN_NAME_FILE:-~/.rnns}

function usage() {
    echo "rnns [-h] friendly_identifier"
}

while getopts h name; do
    case $name in
h)
    usage
    exit 0
    ;;
*)
    usage
    exit 1
    esac
done

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    usage
    exit 1
fi

awk -v entry="$1" '{ for (i=NF; i>1; i--) { if ($i == entry) { print $1} } }' $RN_NAME_FILE

For example usage, one can add an entry for the official Reticulum signing key:

bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165crns-sig

Now you can use it by calling rnns with the string rns-sig:

% rnid -i $(rnns rns-sig) -V nomadnet-1.0.4.tar.gz
Recalled Identity <bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c>
Signature is valid, the file nomadnet-1.0.4.tar.gz was signed by <bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c>
%

You can even add multiple aliases for a single entry:

0cc65124b72a5fdec6dcc14241bb8108openbsd.app openbsd app

All three of the above "resolve" to 0cc6...!

Hope someone finds it useful!

alternative link to the script: 3b5bc6888356193f1ac1bfb716c1beef:/file/rnns

3b5bc6888356193f1ac1bfb716c1beef... beef...

That's nice! Thanks qbit!

Nice one!

Follow-up idea: Have all CLI tools of RNS support a .reticulum/aliases file, similar to SSH aliases.

Or maybe an rnalias tool for managing .reticulum/storage/aliases, if not a part of rnid itself?

joakim wrote:

Nice one!

Follow-up idea: Have all CLI tools of RNS support a .reticulum/aliases file, similar to SSH aliases.

Or maybe an rnalias tool for managing .reticulum/storage/aliases, if not a part of rnid itself?

That would be super nice. How do people manage their identities I wonder. Keep a list somewhere and copy paste of needed?

Here's an updated version that has support for rngit aliases:

#!/bin/sh

# rnns is a utility that can be used to associate a name to a reticulum identity.
# the ~/.rnns file is similar to /etc/hosts, one rnid per line, multiple names
# can bee added at the end:
# abcdething thing.stuff
#
# It also supports pulling aliases from ~/.rngit/client_config.

RN_NAME_FILE=${RN_NAME_FILE:-~/.rnns}

usage() {
echo "rnns [-h] friendly_identifier"
}

while getopts h name; do
case $name in
h)
usage
exit 0
;;
*)
usage
exit 1
;;
esac
done

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
usage
exit 1
fi

RNNF_ENTRY="$(awk -v entry="$1" '{ for (i=NF; i>1; i--) { if ($i == entry) { print $1} } }' $RN_NAME_FILE)"
if [ "$RNNF_ENTRY" == "" ]; then
if [ -r ~/.rngit/client_config ]; then
awk -v entry="$1" '{ if ($1 == entry) {print $3} }' ~/.rngit/client_config
fi
else
echo $RNNF_ENTRY
fi

http mirror: https://paste.suah.dev/rnns
rns mirror: 3b5bc6888356193f1ac1bfb716c1beef:/file/rnns

It might be nice to support comments/notes per alias. Here's how that would look like:

3b5bc6888356193f1ac1bfb716c1beef qbit # based on a forum comment

Updated AWK line:

awk -v entry="$1" '{ sub(/#.*/,""); for (i=NF; i>1; i--) { if ($i == entry) { print $1 } } }' "$RN_NAME_FILE"

Nice, thanks! maybe I shuold put this in a repo..