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Old 08-15-2017
Run remote command and send email
I am currently try to write a simple script with the following condition, but so far not having luck as the exit code would always be 0.
  1. Run remote command to read a file and grep for test word.
  2. if test word is in the file, send email.
  3. if not, do nothing
  4. also possible to ssh to multiple servers in one script?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Code:
#!/bin/bash
date=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

email_to="test_email@xxx.com"
email_subject="subject"
email_body="email body"

server="Host.google.com"

/usr/bin/ssh "$server" "cat log`date +"%m%d"` | grep test" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

then
        echo "$email_body" | /bin/mailx -s "$email_subject" "$email_to"
        exit 1
fi

exit 0

Last edited by rbatte1; 08-16-2017 at 04:49 AM.. Reason: Converted textual numbered list to formatted numbered list and added ICODE tags for clarity.
# 2  
Old 08-15-2017
I can't confirm that "the exit code would always be 0" :
Code:
ssh root@"$server" "grep -q test log$(date +"%m%d")"; echo $?
0
ssh root@"$server" "grep -q txst log$(date +"%m%d")"; echo $?
1

Try
Code:
ssh root@"$server" "grep -q test log$(date +"%m%d")" && echo "$email_body" | /bin/mailx -s "$email_subject" "$email_to"
/bin/mailx -s subject test_email@xxx.com
email body

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# 3  
Old 08-15-2017
I guess the problem is in your invocation of ssh:
Code:
/usr/bin/ssh "$server" "cat log`date +"%m%d"` | grep test" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

The | grep test should really be running on your machine rather than the server. I also don't like the embedding of quotes - it might work, but ...

I've made a few changes to your code (untested).
Code:
#!/bin/bash
date=$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
# bash 4.2: printf -v mydate "%(%Y%m%d%H%M%S)T" -2
log_file=$(/bin/date +"log%m%d")
# bash 4.2: printf -v log_file "log%(%m%d)T" -2

email_to="test_email@xxx.com"
email_subject="subject"
email_body="email body"

server="Host.google.com"

/usr/bin/ssh "$server" "cat ${log_file}" | grep test >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

then
        echo "$email_body" | /bin/mailx -s "$email_subject" "$email_to"
        exit 1
fi

exit 0

By setting the name of the log file outside of the invocation of ssh not only do you reduce the number of quotes in the line but it becomes easier to read.

Using backticks for process substitution is deprecated, I believe, and tends to be frowned upon in this forum; also $(...) is easier to read.

Is this any better?

Andrew
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# 4  
Old 08-16-2017
Thanks Andrew, learned something new today about backticks. Your modification did work as intended Smilie
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