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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting running command remotely to populate local variable Post 302259984 by hcclnoodles on Wednesday 19th of November 2008 11:50:14 AM
Old 11-19-2008
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

Cheers
 

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shell(1F)							   FMLI Commands							 shell(1F)

NAME
shell - run a command using shell SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ... DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise /usr/bin/sh). EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of shell command. Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background processing, the shell function can be used instead. `shell "build prog > /dev/null &"` If you want the user to continue to be able to interact with the application while the background job is running, the output of an exe- cutable run by shell in the background must be redirected: to a file if you want to save the output, or to /dev/null if you don't want to save it (or if there is no output), otherwise your application may appear to be hung until the background job finishes processing. shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name as an FMLI built-in function. NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces, which may or may not do what is expected. The variables set in local environments will not be expanded by the shell because "local" means "local to the current process." ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sh(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 shell(1F)
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