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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using a find command in ssh but using local variables? Post 302824795 by Orionizer on Friday 21st of June 2013 02:15:34 PM
Old 06-21-2013
Ok, I tried just to create a test script:

Code:
DAY6=`date -I -d "2 days ago"`

ssh root@synology1 `if [ -d /volume1/Fileserver/$DAY6 ] then echo "Found" fi`

But I get the following error upon execution:

./test.sh: command substitution: line 4: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I then changed the back quotes to forward quotes and got the following error:

ash: syntax error: unexpected end of file (expecting "then")

I'm stuck - any ideas on what I need to do?

---------- Post updated at 01:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:13 PM ----------

Ok, that showed up as I was writing my reply. Let me give that a try...

---------- Post updated at 01:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:14 PM ----------

Ok, I changed the command to:

Code:
DAY6=`date -I -d "2 days ago"`

ssh root@synology1 "if [ -d /volume1/Fileserver/$DAY6 ] then echo "Found" fi"

Got the same error message:

ash: syntax error: unexpected end of file (expecting "then")
 

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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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