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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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RemoteCommand with percent signs doesn't work
The following command
tmux new -A -s $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
works and starts tmux with a session, named after current datetime (as expected).
But if I put the same in ssh config
RemoteCommand tmux new ...
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I received error "bash: line 1: [: -ne: unary operator expected" after run the below script
This script provides the expected output, but throw the error "bash: line 1: [: -ne: unary operator expected". Techies help to fix this.
#!/bin/bash
USR="root"
# Email
SUBJECT="NTP Service Status ...
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how to use quotes in sed & ssh?
i cant get this to work in bash/rhel 7:
ssh host "sed -i -e \"s/dnl MASQUERADE_AS.*\$/MASQUERADE_AS(\`domain.com\')dnl/\" /etc/mail/sendmail.mc"
bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for ...
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Run ssh command without quotes
You can execute a command on a remote server using
ssh user@host 'the command'
but is there a way to execute the command without quotes?
(I am on BSD and using OpenSSH)
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Kill remote process via ssh
I have a process that I want to kill remotely. I tried
ssh remotehost "kill -9 $(ps -aux | grep foo | grep bar | awk '{print $2}')"
but this returns the error
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n ...
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SSH with Command Doesn't Run as an Alias
I have the following command to remote into a local server and tail -f the latest log file for an application that I have.
The command works perfectly fine from the command line -
ssh user@hostname ...
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Bash Script to remotely collect hostname, IP and host total memory
I am trying to write a scrip that will collect the hostname, IP and total memory installed on remote hosts from a list I feed into the script. The script will collect information from Redhat and ...
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get output of this command from another server via ssh
I'm trying to ssh into a server and get the system uptime using a specific command but it's failing to execute.
this would work locally on almost all unix systems
startuptime=`uptime | awk '{print $...
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Using a function's output (defined locally) inside SSH call
I have created a function
function getqueue() {
urlqueuename="urlcall"
ouput=`curl $urlqueuename`
queue=$(echo $ouput | jq -r '.queueName')
echo $queue
}
I am using a ssh call ...
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awk in ssh command line complains 'unexpected newline or end of string' How to resolve?
While running the below script had an issue, ^ unexpected newline or end of string
How could I resolve this ?
[root@emrbldbgdapd2 ~]# ./collectdata.sh
collect the data of 10.209.61.124
awk: cmd. ...
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How do ssh remote command line arguments get parsed
I've seen the questions and answers about needing to double-escape the arguments to remote ssh commands. My question is: Exactly where and when does the second parsing get done?
If I run the ...
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Having trouble with sqlite3 ssh command (I am assuming bad quotes)
The following works great:
ssh plxch1035.pdx.xxxxxx.com "sqlite3 /p/hdk/rtl/proj_data/shdk74/fe_data/ipci/ipci.db 'select * from tools'"
When I want a specific tool row though:
ssh plxch1035.pdx....
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Avoid escaping of double quotes
I have some commands I want to execute in a bash script.
Now when we use single quotes the variable is taken literal and not the value.
So doing e.g. ls "$SOME_DIR" is not the same as ls '$SOME_DIR'
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Nested quotes nightmare : sending an e-mail from a remote host
I need to send (from my terminal) an email with attachments from my remote host which I access by ssh.
I already know that to do something remotely, I use
ssh -p myport [email protected] "...
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