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Old 05-05-2014
SSH file redirection is not maintaining format
Hi,

I'm running a script which would ssh to various ssh-trust enabled servers and get a list of packages installed. The output of this command would be redirected to a file

Code:
ssh -q $i 'rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}\t\t,%{ARCH}\t\t,%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\t\t,%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n'|sed "s/^/`hostname`,\t\t/g" >> /tmp/`hostname`.PreUpdate.csv'

When I run this command locally on the server I get rows/columns

However, in ssh all the data is getting written to one Column

Any ideas
# 2  
Old 05-05-2014
Try replacing single quotes with doubles.
Code:
ssh -q $i "rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}\t\t,%{ARCH}\t\t,%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\t\t,%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n'|sed "s/^/`hostname`,\t\t/g" >> /tmp/`hostname`.PreUpdate.csv"

# 3  
Old 05-05-2014
With double quotes at this level, the executing machine hostname will be prepended, instead of the one you ssh into. Because your machine's shell will evaluate whatever is inside the double quotes before passing it to ssh. example:

Code:
mute@hostA:~$ ssh mute@hostB "echo 'hello world' | sed \"s/^/`hostname`,\t\t/g\""
hostA,              hello world
mute@hostA:~$ ssh mute@hostB 'echo "hello world" | sed "s/^/`hostname`,\t\t/g"'
hostB,               hello world

I'd suggest just replacing the quotes used for --queryformat to double quotes.
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