So I have a scriptlet called solaris_command:

Code:

for i in \
server1 server2 server3
do 
echo $i
ssh $i $1
echo ""
done

I then use that as a command in multiple scripts to allow for data gathering for all virtual hosts in the environment thusly:

Code:

solaris_command "cat /etc/hosts">>hosts.txt

this works for most instances but I am trying to do something a little more advanced and I can't seem to bend it to my will.

what I would like to do is something like:

Code:

 sed -e 's/^/$HOSTNAME /' /etc/vfstab|egrep -v -e $HOSTNAME' #'|expand|egrep -e '(svr|ldm|zone)'|cut -d ' ' -f 1-2,4|sed -e 's/ /,/'

basically reading in /etc/vfstab|manipulating it a couple times with sed, grep and cut to get the data I want in the format I want and then save it to a .txt file on the server I ran the command from.

however with respect to

Code:

$HOSTNAME

it outputs the hostname of the server the command was run on, not the name of the remote server. I'm stumped. I've tried it with

Code:

\$HOSTNAME

,

Code:

$HOSTNAME

,

Code:

`echo $HOSTNAME`

.

Code:

`hostname`

, and even

Code:

`echo /etc/nodename`

to no avail.