Re: chaining ssh commands

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:30:54 -0400

"Darren Tucker" <dtucker@gate.dodgy.net.au> wrote in message
news:4337bb95$0$24169$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> On 2005-09-26, Jacques-Olivier Haenni <jo_no_spam@haenni.info> wrote:
>> This can simply be performed as follows:
>>
>> ssh me@remotebox 'cd /usr/me; tar -xvf me.tar'
>
> Note that if the "cd" fails it will still run the second command.
> In this example it's probably not a big deal, but under other conditions
> it might be.
>
> To prevent that, use "&&" instead, eg:
> $ ssh me@remotebox 'cd /usr/me && tar -xvf me.tar'

Or, in this case:

    ssh me@remotebox 'tar xvf -C /usr/me /usr/me/me.tar"

That way, there's only one command to fail and it's usually easier to track
what the failure was.

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