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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to have local shell variables in a ksh script seen on remove server in SSH block? Post 303036275 by DJR on Friday 21st of June 2019 09:18:45 AM
Old 06-21-2019
Thanks but these don't work. Escaping the variables with a backslash does nothing - tried in double quotes also as in \"$var" and either way they are still blank in the SSH block. If I just say
Code:
fn=\$filename 
or
fn=\"$filename"

and then echo $fn right afterwards either way it is blank.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to show in the second one. Yes I can declare a variable within the SSH part and use it there, but that doesn't help me. I need to be able to reference the variables I declared before I accessed the remote server.

--- Post updated at 09:18 AM ---

I've been playing around with it some more and here is something I've found that really stumps me. As I said, escaping it with the backslash does nothing. However if I use double quotes ONLY, it does, sort of:

If I say within the SSH block,
Code:
echo fp = $\filepath

It returns nothing: fp =

However if use doublequotes:
echo fp = "$filepath"

This works, it displays fp = /xxx/yyy/zzz/

However, it still won't assign it to a local variable or work in an expression. So if I try this:
Code:
echo fp = "$filepath"
fp="$filepath"
echo fp = $fp

I get

Code:
fp = /xxx/yyy/zzz/
fp =

Why is it that i can evaluate it in the echo statement but it won't assign it to the remote variable?
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 06-21-2019 at 02:13 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

irsend

IRSEND(1)							   User Commands							 IRSEND(1)

NAME

       irsend - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands

SYNOPSIS

       irsend [options] DIRECTIVE REMOTE CODE [CODE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Asks the lircd daemon to send one or more CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) commands. This is intended for remote control of electronic devices such
       as TV boxes, HiFi sets, etc.

       DIRECTIVE can be:
	  SEND_ONCE	    - send CODE [CODE ...] once
	  SEND_START	    - start repeating CODE
	  SEND_STOP	    - stop repeating CODE
	  LIST		    - list configured remote items
	  SET_TRANSMITTERS  - set transmitters NUM [NUM ...]
	  SIMULATE	    - simulate IR event

       REMOTE is the name of a remote, as described in the lircd configuration file.

       CODE is the name of a remote control key of REMOTE, as it appears in the lircd configuration file.

       NUM is the transmitter number of the hardware device.

       For the LIST DIRECTIVE, REMOTE and/or CODE can be empty:

	  LIST	 ""    ""   - list all configured remote names
	  LIST REMOTE  ""   - list all codes of REMOTE
	  LIST REMOTE CODE  - list only CODE of REMOTE

       The SIMULATE command only works if it has been explicitly enabled in lircd.

       -h --help
	      display usage summary

       -v --version
	      display version

       -d --device
	      use given lircd socket [/var/run/lirc/lircd]

       -a --address=host[:port]
	      connect to lircd at this address

       -# --count=n
	      send command n times

EXAMPLES

	  irsend LIST DenonTuner ""
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  DenonTuner PROG-SCAN
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  OnkyoAmpli VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP
	  irsend SEND_START OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN ; sleep 3
	  irsend SEND_STOP  OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1 3 4
	  irsend SIMULATE "0000000000000476 00 OK TECHNISAT_ST3004S"

FILES

       /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
	      Default lircd configuration file.  It should contain all the remotes, their infra-red codes and the corresponding timing	and  wave-
	      form details.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If lircd is not running (or /var/run/lirc/lircd lacks write permissions) irsend aborts with the following diagnostics:
       "irsend: could not connect to socket"
       "irsend: Connection refused" (or "Permission denied").

SEE ALSO

       The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.

       lircd(8), mode2(1), smode2(1), xmode2(1), irrecord(1), irw(1), http://www.lirc.org.

irsend 0.9.0-pre1						   October 2010 							 IRSEND(1)
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