Re: Config to have "ssh too-old-host" error out (with chosen message, and sans actual connection attempt)?

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 20:47, Jochen Bern <Jochen.Bern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] I'd like to change .ssh/config so that when muscle memory does a
> "ssh too-old-host" again, I get output to the effect of "use the 'foo
> bar baz' command instead" (and ideally, OpenSSH itself does not even
> *attempt* to connect).
> [...]
> ProxyCommand seems to be unable, too (because its output apparently gets
> swallowed *entirely* by ssh).
>

Its stdout does (since that's its purpose), but its stderr doesn't:

$ cat config
ProxyCommand sh -c "echo use foo instead >&2"

$ ssh -F ./config foo bar
use foo instead
Connection closed by UNKNOWN port 65535

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