Shell Programming and Scripting

if [[ $nbserve == SENDone || $nbserve == Zray|| $nbserve == Partition ]]; 
then 
    export tapes=$(for tape in $(su - nacct -c 'ssh remote1 "cat /filer/cart/vol0/tech/File\ Lists/'"$nbserve"'/'"$move"'"'| gawk '{print $1}'|sed -n '/\([0-9]\)\(.*\)/p'); 
    do echo $cartridge;done);
else 
    export cartridges=$(for cartridge in $(su - nbacct -c 'ssh remote1 "cat /filer/cart/vol0/techFile\ Lists/'"$nbserve"'/'"$movelist"'"'| tr -d " \t" |sed -n 's/\(.*)\)\([A-Z]\{1,3\}[0-9]\{1,5\}\)\(.*\)/\2/p'); 
    do echo $cartridge;done);
fi

    # old 
    export tapes=$(for tape in $(su - nacct -c 'ssh remote1 "cat /filer/cart/vol0/tech/File\ Lists/'"$nbserve"'/'"$move"'"'| gawk '{print $1}'|sed -n '/\([0-9]\)\(.*\)/p'); 
    do echo $cartridge;done);

    myfile="/filer/cart/vol0/tech/File\ Lists/$nbserve/$move"
    # many ssh calls hang change this prt to check for completion
    # Instead of many ssh calls copy the file locally.
    (su - nacct -c "scp remote:${myfile} /tmp/tmp1" ) &
    pid=$!    # pid of child scp process
    sleep 5
    kill -0 $pid
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
      kill $pid   # get rid the child process
      wait
      # we are hung up so execute some other lines here
    else
      # if we did not get hung up then run gawk on the local file /tmp/tmp1
      # here.
      tapes=$( #your gawk/sed goes here using /tmp/tmp1 # )
    fi