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How would you gracefully handle this snippet to allow for spaces in directories?
I have a series of commands, e.g.:
ssh -i key 10.10.10.10 mkdir -p "${DEST_PATH}/subdir1" "${DEST_PATH}/subdir2"
rsync "${SOURCE_PATH}" "$DEST_HOST:${DEST_PATH}/...
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How do ssh remote command line arguments get parsed
I've seen the questions and answers about needing to double-escape the arguments to remote ssh commands. My question is: Exactly where and when does the second parsing get done?
If I run the ...
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Date command is not working in remote server when running using a script
I am running below command from a script from a remote server, but getting error No such file or directory
ssh -t -t [email protected] \"sudo mysql nss_mysql < /home/user/scripts/Db_nss_mysql-`date ...
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mask Dollar, brackets and quotes in remote ssh command [duplicate]
I want to do some script on a remote mashine through ssh:
ssh Server "V=\$\(lua -e 'print\(require\(\\\"platform_info\\\"\).get_image_name\(\)\)'\); echo \$V"
But this echo $V at the end gives me ...
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issue with back quotes inside while loop when running a command over ssh
This question is a bit complicated. I will try to explain in detail.
I have two machines, one is local and other say 192.168.1.2. I have set the following variables in my local machine
CHECK="/home/...
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How to escape quotes in shell within both usage of ssh and sudo?
In one word:
question and example could test locally:
sh -c "echo 'how to print single quote here'"
details:
I have a config like this:
upload_server = ('192.168.1.1', 10051)
now I need a shell ...
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Multiple commands with quotations after SSHing
I have a server I have to ssh into with many commands which feature the use of variable assignment and consequently a lot of quotation marks. If we consider the script:
ssh user@host "kinit -k -t /...
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Syntax error with variable containing quotes
I have a bunch of Linux machines behind 2 gateways. To connect to set one I do
ssh -o ProxyCommand="ssh gateway1 nc %h %p" machines_behind_1
ssh -o ProxyCommand="ssh gateway2 nc --proxy %h %p --...
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Run for loop via ssh
Good day All,
I'm attempting to run a for loop via SSH. The loop is used to get the last login of each user that has an account on the server,
ssh 172.20.2.1 '''for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{...
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Passing multiple of arguments with whitespaces through a script to ssh
I want to remove multiple files from remote server. I have all files under one array in a script and I call other script which will remove files.
Let output of "${b[@]}" is:
/mnt/DataBK/...
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ssh 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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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 $PATH is ...
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Exclude the output from ssh and only log the error if found
typeset -f | sshpass -e ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@${IPADDRESS} "
$(cat);
IFERROR=$(checkscript);
echo "$IFERROR"" > ${SSHTEMPFILE} 2>&1
This line...I can't exclude the "...
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ssh inside a script with 'command' instead of "command"
I am trying to run commands on various nodes of our cluster automatically via a simples script. I have seen that I can run:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Machine: "$HOSTNAME;
ssh machine2 'echo Machine: $...
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