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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check whether file is exist on remote server Post 302333720 by suigion on Tuesday 14th of July 2009 02:00:55 AM
Old 07-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by mglenney
Disclaimer: My point of reference is bash script.

As far as I know ssh doesn't send back return codes for scripts you execute remotely so your logic is a bit flawed there. Your test (if) is testing the ssh connection, I believe, so as long as you can ssh you'll test true. When you execute a command remotely with ssh you get back whatever is returned by the command so you need to execute a script on the remote server that looks for the file and returns what you want or just do it in a one-liner.

Code:
ssh user@remote 'if [ -f /home/batch/sample.txt ]; then echo "data file exists"; else echo "data file does not exist"; fi'

Thanks mglenney... it works!! Smilie
 

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