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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SSH] Accessing remote directory with user-passed path Post 302566094 by lgb3 on Wednesday 19th of October 2011 12:10:54 PM
Old 10-19-2011
[SSH] Accessing remote directory with user-passed path
Hi everybody,

Currently, I have a script which access a remote computer via SSH, go to a folder already defined in the code and then executes a program in it, just like that:

Code:
ssh user@host  << EOI
cd path
./file
EOI

It executes fine, but now I want to pass an argument in the command line call. which is the name of the folder to "cd" to and the name of the file to run. So I tried the following:

Code:
dir=  $1
ssh user@host << EOI
cd $dir
pwd
./$1
EOI

, which doesn't work. It's as if after the "ssh user@host << EOI" line the script lost knowledge of the variable $dir as well as $1.

I'm pretty noob in shell scripting, so would you know any way to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Luiz.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ssh-argv0

SSH-ARGV0(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME

     ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling

SYNOPSIS

     hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command]

     hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name]
     [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command]

DESCRIPTION

     ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling.	If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is
     equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument.  All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally.

OPTIONS

     See ssh(1).

FILES

     See ssh(1).

AUTHORS

     OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.  Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
     Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH.  Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
     protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.  Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1)

Debian Project							 September 7, 2001						    Debian Project
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