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Old 03-08-2008
grebbux grebbux is offline
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nicely formatted directory listing from batch ssh session
Hi,

I am really struggling to finish of a script I have been assigned.
The script's purpose is to log on to each server defined in an array, determine the Web Server version, and list the directory beneath the installation directory. In my case, this installation directory is almost always "/opt/IBMHTTPServer" (sometimes "/opt/IBMHttpServer")

Here's a snippet from the code.


Code:
for host in ${Hosts}
do
  AssumedDir=$(batch_ssh ${host} "ls -1 /opt")
  if [[ ${AssumedDir} = *IBMHTTPServer*  ]]; then
    ServerInstallDir='/opt/IBMHTTPServer'
  else
    ServerInstallDir='/opt/IBMHttpServer'
  fi

 #DirectoryListing=$(batch_ssh ${host} "find ${ServerInstallDir} -type d -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'")
 #DirectoryListing=$(batch_ssh ${host} "ls -1 $ServerInstallDir")
 DirectoryListing=$(batch_ssh ${host} "ls -1 $ServerInstallDir | while read d; do echo $d ; done")

  ServerVersion=$(batch_ssh ${host} "${ServerInstallDir}/bin/httpd -V | awk 'NR < 2'")

  echo '<br /><h3>'${host}'</h3>' >> $HTMLFILE
  echo '<b>Server Version</b>: ' ${ServerVersion} >> $HTMLFILE
  echo '<br /><b>Directory Structure</b><br /> ' $DirectoryListing >> $HTMLFILE

done

#- Email results
html_mail -t "some.body@company.co.uk" -r "noreply@servername" -s "Apache Security Audit" -a "$HTMLFILE"

(That sed command above come from a UNIX forums frequent, i forget the name! Thanks though - the two commented DirectoryListing vars are just experimentation)

So after this script has done it's thing, it invokes a perl script (html_mail) to send the report. (I didn't make this, and I know it works well). The mail comes through as planned, however the directory listing is very ugly, it looks like this:


Code:
_uninst admindocs bin cgi-bin conf example_module htdocs icons include keys.q.hpicheck.com keys.q.hpicheck.com.20061002_141729 keys.q.racexaminations.co.uk keys.q.racvehiclehealthcheck.co.uk keys.q.vehiclestatusreport.co.uk libexec license logs man readme ssl tivready version.signature

I would like the above files/directory's to be listed like they would be after issuing `ls -1` from the shell.

Thank you for reading my post, I hope someone can help me. If you have any comments of the quality of the code above please air them, as it is my first (somewhat) useful script, and I'm eager for all the feedback I can get. (Full version of the script is Bash pastebin - collaborative debugging tool)

Thank you.