Since this is Python, you can use the built-in tempfile module to securely create/delete temporary files https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html https:

Since this is Python, you can use the built-in tempfile module to securely create/delete temporary files https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html Additionally, a feature where the command line argument is applied as a wildcard search against the list of hosts would be nice, with the default behavior being to ssh into the first match when there's only one matching host.