Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I am trying to run a script which is expected to do:

on the remote machine,
There are two directories /export/home/abc1,/export/home/abc2
i am trying to do,
ssh SERVERNAME "for i in `ls -l /export/home/abc*|awk '{print $9}'`; do cd $i; ls -l; done"

But its not working ,iam getting /export/home/abc*:No such file or directory.
When i run the for loop in the remote system its working fine.

The system is Solaris 8 and running as root.

Please let me know if something wrong


Thanks.

The whole script is enormously overcomplicated.

Code:

ssh SERVERNAME 'ls -l /export/home/abc[12]'

The error message indicates that this is not as such the problem, though. Are you sure the path is correct?

Hi ,

Thanks for the reply.

The paths are correct, i dont want to use abc[12] as they might vary from servers, thats why i use generic abc*,
Please advise.


Thanks.

Feel free to change that, does it work with these changes?

Hi,

It worked.

Is it possible to do other operations like tar etc inside these directories?

Thanks,

Anything you can run at the prompt, you can run with ssh, but properly quoting the arguments you want to pass to the remote server can be a challenge if it's a complex script.

can you tell me what's wrong with my command. Do i need to put any escape characters?


Thanks.