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Passing a list of two PIDs to xargs only kills the first using ssh
I'm retrieving a list of two PIDs that I want to kill. My pipeline looks something like
ps -ef | grep foo | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9
Both processes are killed when executing ...
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How to use single quotes inside ssh and sqlplus
Below script helps me to ssh and do sqlplus to fetch info from database. I checked and it worked well but the only problem is if i use single quotes in the sql query then I am getting an error since I ...
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Run for loop via ssh
Good day All,
I'm attempting to run a for loop via SSH. The loop is used to get the last login of each user that has an account on the server,
ssh 172.20.2.1 '''for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{...
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Exported variables inside ssh session are empty
I am trying to export a variable inside a ssh session and reference the variable in the next write command.
sshpass -p "password" ssh -t -t my-box <<EOF
export newUrl="this is a url"
sudo -...
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Passing multiple of arguments with whitespaces through a script to ssh
I want to remove multiple files from remote server. I have all files under one array in a script and I call other script which will remove files.
Let output of "${b[@]}" is:
/mnt/DataBK/...
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ssh pass multiple values
I want to open some ports i do
for i in centos7{3..4};do ssh -T $i "for ir in 53 80 443 3000 3306 5910-5930 5432 8140 8443 10090-10100 20 21;do firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=$ir/...
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ssh me@remote "<script with a for loop and variables>" - problem with variable expansion in for loop in remote script
Note - I posted a similar question yesterday and got a bit further thanks to @cas but am still having problems. I've refined the question so have re-asked it.
I'm passing script text to an ssh ...
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Passing script string to ssh from within a bash script function - variable evaluation problem
I'm trying to write a bash script that runs a remote script via ssh as below:
#!/bin/bash
logfilepattern="*drupal*.gz php*.gz error*.gz"
function getlogcounts {
echo "in getlogcounts"
echo $...
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how to run multiple commands with awk via ssh?
I am having difficulty on the command below. Something is not right with the awk command. I tried putting backslash but still no good.
Anyone can pin point where is my syntax gone wrong?
for i in $(...
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Why the number is rounded over ssh? [duplicate]
localhost:~ $ df -k / | awk '{print $3/1024/1024/1024}'
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0.00618061
localhost:~ $ ssh localhost "df -k / | awk '{print $3/1024/1024/1024}'"
01
01
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Is it possible to escape quotes within escape quotes within escape quotes within escape quotes?
I'm trying to do is run a command inside an...
su - someuser -c "ssh someplace \"if ( ! grep <b>[WHAT DO I PUT HERE?]</b>some thing<b>[WHAT DO I PUT HERE]</b> /etc/somefile ); ...
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View remote value of $PATH inside shell script
When executing this bash script, it only shows my local path.
ssh ${REMOTE_HOST} 'bash -s' <<EOL
set -e
source ~/.profile
echo $PATH
# Commands here don't work because $PATH is ...
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ssh command with quotes
I have an odd error that I have been unable to find anything on this. I wanted to change the user comment with the following command.
$ sudo usermod -c "New Comment" user
This will work while logged ...
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ssh not showing full output of command
I have a list of servers 20+ that I would like to get the shell that they are using. While logged onto a server I can run the following command
$ ps -p $$
PID TTY TIME CMD
12022 pts/6 00:...
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How to execute an arbitrary simple command over ssh without knowing the login shell of the remote user?
ssh has an annoying feature in that when you run:
ssh user@host cmd and "here's" "one arg"
Instead of running that cmd with its arguments on host, it concatenates that cmd and ...
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