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I attempted doing this initially. Everything is very doable except SSH. One would have to rely on third-party libraries to do this well.

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Are you open to a single dependency [0]? Entirely native tooling is an admirable thing that I greatly appreciate, but parsing subprocess output is fraught with issues (I know, I've done this as well).

[0]: https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh-python

I’ve used paramiko for this also: https://www.paramiko.org/.

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