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11-19-2008

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running command remotely to populate local variable

If I run this

Code:

[root@central-server] # ssh remote-server 'du -sk /usr/platform/`uname -i`/'
174     /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V245

I get my output just fine,

However, if i try to do the same but populate a local variable within my script called for example 'result'

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

result=`ssh remote-server 'du -sk /usr/platform/`uname -i`/'`
echo $result

I get

Code:

[root@central-server] # ./test.sh 
./test.sh[13]: /: cannot execute
./test.sh[13]: -i:  not found

It looks like the `uname -i` is not getting run remotely, does anybody know how I can get this to be recognised by the remote box ?

Any help would be great

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