Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone, after about 2 days of scratching my head on this one, I'm finally ready to punt this and ask for some actual help. Here's the situation. We have 1 server, that runs multiple VM's. To gain access to those VM's we ssh from host01 to the other vm hosts. For example when we first log into the machine, we're always on host01. Then from there we can ssh to host02, host03 etc... What I'd like to do is log into host01 as per normal, and have a script that ssh's to host03, runs a few commands on host03, but puts the output of those commands onto the tty of the screen of host01. The script I have looks like this:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  ssh -t -t $tar_host & <<EOF  sleep 2 echo "On host03" EOF  echo "worked?" exit 0

What this does is basically logs me onto host03, successfully, but there's no output from the echo "On host03" obviously.
What I would want is to be able to ssh onto host03, run a list of commands in the EOF here document list, but have all of the output from those commands make it's way back to my host01 tty..
Is something like this possible? Assuming that authentication to the ssh session isn't an issue (shared keys). Would I need to open up a separate tty session? I've seen a lot of recommendations about playing around with /dev/tty and /dev/pts/ etc.. but nothing concrete so far..
Thank guys, any help is appreciated!

The single line shell script you have shown us:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  ssh -t -t $tar_host & <<EOF  sleep 2 echo "On host03" EOF  echo "worked?" exit 0

makes absolutely no sense.

I will assume that there are some <newline> characters in that script that have been lost in some copy and paste activities. Please show us the actual script (with the line breaks) AND tell us:

My apologies! Yea the code tag thing put it all in one line for whatever reason...Here it is again...

Code:

#! /bin/bash  

ssh -t -t $tar_host & <<EOF  
sleep 2 
echo "On host03" 
EOF  
echo "worked?" 
exit 0

The name of the script is just test_script.sh.
I can't post the full script due to it having some proprietary elements, but just know that the $tar_host variable is the name of host03. So it's basically saying

Code:

ssh -t -t  host03 &  <<EOF

Also from host01 (where this script is run) I can do ssh host03 and it works without a hitch, since it can work without prompting for passwords by using the ssh keys.

The OS being used is RedHat 6 or7 I believe.
Lastly the script is invoked just by the user sourcing it with ./test_script.sh

Any other question let me know! Much appreciated

Moderator's Comments:

No! CODE tags DO NOT remove <newline> characters. Please use CODE tags when displaying sample input, output, and code segments.

You can choose not to show us your script and we can make lots of wild assumptions. Or, you could show us your complete script with proprietary information redacted. Instead you have shown us two other scripts. All I can do at this point is comment on the script you provided in post #3 in this thread (shown here with trailing spaces replaced by <space>:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  

ssh -t -t $tar_host & <<EOF<space><space>
sleep 2<space>
echo "On host03"<space>
EOF<space><space>
echo "worked?"<space>
exit 0

Comments:If what you are trying to do is to run ssh on host03 feeding it two commands in a here-document, you might want something more like:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  
tar_host="host03"
{  ssh -t -t $tar_host <<EOF
   sleep 2
   echo "On host03"
EOF
}&
echo "worked?"<space>
exit 0

Hmm Thanks for the feedback Don, trust me it's not falling on deaf ears. I hope to learn much much more. So it was my understanding that the & at the end of a command, basically says to Bash, to execute the command, but run it "in the background" and move on to the next line while it's running (so it doesn't hang their waiting)

And wow, I didn't know that the two spaces following the EOF (ending of the here doc) would cause it problems! The syntax for here docs must be very very specific I see...

The list of commands will be much more than the simple ones I provided here. I was just short on time, and didn't want to list all of the commands I intended to run on host03, because most of them wouldn't make much sense, without explanation. Anyway, the point though of all of this, is to have the output of the commands, display on the tty of host01 though. I'm not in front of my computer to try out the suggested script you provided just yet, but how would I go about this?

Would I need to run the script in one tty session of host01, and watch for the output in another tty session of host01?

I thank you for your immense patience...and to anyone else who has an answer please feel free to chime in..