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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pulling remote hostname into variable Post 302440603 by hobbes80 on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 05:36:57 PM
Old 07-27-2010
Pulling remote hostname into variable
I'm trying to write a shell script using bash that connects to a remote server, runs a command that generates a file, pulls the file over, then renames it with the hostname of the remote server and a an extension.

So far, I'm able to everything but pull the hostname of the remote server into a variable.

Code:
REMHOST='ssh root@192.168.1.1 hostname'
echo $REMHOST

returns:
ssh root@192.168.1.1 hostname

When I run the command from the prompt, it returns what I am looking for. I also tried:
Code:
REMHOST='ssh root@192.168.1.1 hostname 2>$1'
echo $REMHOST

and i had similar results, where the contents of the ' were returned.

Thanks in advance for the help
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

showmount

showmount(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     showmount(1M)

NAME

       showmount - show remote mounts

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/showmount [-ade] [hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       showmount  lists  the clients that have remotely mounted a filesystem from host. This information is maintained by the mountd(1M) server on
       host, and is saved across crashes in the file /etc/rmtab. The default value for host is the value returned by hostname(1).

       The showmount command does not display the names of NFS Version 4 clients.

OPTIONS

       -a	Print all remote mounts in the format:

		hostname : directory

		where hostname is the name of the client, and directory is the root of the file system that has been mounted.

       -d	List directories that have been remotely mounted by clients.

       -e	Print the list of shared file systems.

FILES

       /etc/rmtab

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnfscu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hostname(1), mountd(1M), attributes(5)

       Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations

BUGS

       If a client crashes, its entry will not be removed from the list of remote mounts on the server.

SunOS 5.10							    26 Oct 2004 						     showmount(1M)
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