Re: Scripting SSH connections

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 05/17/04

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To: Simon Burson <Simon.Burson@telecom.co.nz>

    Simon Burson wrote:
    > I would like to write a basic shell script (Linux - bash) that will make
    > an SSH connection to another machine, execute arbitrary commands, read
    > back the output and log off gracefully. I can pipe commands to ssh but
    > of course this isn't interactive and so decisions can't be made based on
    > output.

    Well, for one thing you can have the remote system do the logic, eg

    ssh localhost /bin/sh <<EOD
    if [ `uname` == "Linux" ]
    then
             echo yes
    else
             echo no
    fi
    EOD 

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