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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to check via SSH and credentials if file on remote server exists? Post 303031847 by RudiC on Wednesday 6th of March 2019 12:43:05 PM
Old 03-06-2019
For that many files, an ssh connection for every single one is pointless unless they all are on different servers. Should they be on one or few servers, and you just need to check their existence, why not use the sftp command, which is part of the ssh suite, to get a remote directory listing and evaluate that locally? Like
Code:
sftp user@host <<< "ls -1 $DIRTOCHECK" > filesonserver

If there are more than one remote directories to be searched, try using a "batchfile" containing the ls commands for the target directories, like
Code:
sftp -b batchfile user@host  > filesonserver

After that, on the local node, you can compare the results against the list of necessary files.
Last edited by RudiC; 03-06-2019 at 03:24 PM..
 

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bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)					      General Commands Manual					       bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)

NAME

       bssh/bvnc/bshell - Browse for SSH/VNC servers on the local network

SYNOPSIS

       bssh

       bvnc

       bshell

DESCRIPTION

       bssh/bvnc/bshell  browses  for  SSH/VNC	servers  on  the  local  network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls
       ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made.

       If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown. If the binary is called as bvnc only VNC servers  will  be  shown.  If  the
       binary is called as bshell both VNC and SSH servers are shown.

OPTIONS

       -s | --ssh
	      Browse for SSH servers (and only SSH servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -v | --vnc
	      Browse for VNC servers (and only VNC servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -S | --shell
	      Browse for both VNC and SSH servers regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -d | --domain= DOMAIN
	      Browse in the specified domain. If omitted bssh/bvnc/bshell will browse in the default browsing domain (usually .local)

       -h | --help
	      Show help.

SEE ALSO

       avahi-browse(1), ssh(1), vncviewer(1)

COMMENTS

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