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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting OSX bash & expect Post 302773817 by jnojr on Thursday 28th of February 2013 05:53:02 PM
Old 02-28-2013
Unfortunately, what I'm doing is more of an "on demand" type of thing. If I absolutely had to, I could use a cron job, but that's a last resort.

In any case, someone in another thread gave me the hint that pushed me over the edge...

Code:
  ssh $host ls /etc/cma.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
    if [ -f /tmp/hbss.sh ]; then rm -f /tmp/hbss.sh; fi
cat >/tmp/hbss.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
ssh -tt $host sudo grep CMABuildNumber /etc/cma.conf <<EOS
$SUDOPASS
EOS
EOF
    chmod 755 /tmp/hbss.sh
    HBSSVER=`/tmp/hbss.sh | grep CMABuildNumber | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1`
    #if [ -f /tmp/hbss.sh ]; then rm -f /tmp/hbss.sh; fi
  fi

It is a lot uglier than I'd like, but it works.

Ahh, the mysteries of bash!
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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