Solaris

Thanks for all the help Tony

when I do the ssh user@box command >> resultfile from unix to unix I get the file

but when I do that same command from unix to windows the file is not created on the windows machine or my local (solaris box)

the command that doesn't give me an output file (just to be more clear)

ssh user@windowsbox test -e filenamelocation >> resultsfile

that resultsfile doesn't show up on my unix box where I'm performing the command or the windows box

is there a way to specify where the output can go? (like explicitly setting the unix host for the results file?)

It should be on the Unix box, could try /tmp/resultfile so you know for definite where it is, note >> will append more lines to resultfile hence better to use > in this situation so you only have the result of the last test run in resultfile.

hrmmm

I don't see any results file... when I do this very command from unix to unix everything works but somewhere between the unix to windows box my output is going missing..

and I forgot to add the last bit to the command (might be able to give someone some insight)


ssh user@windowsbox test -e filenamelocation || echo $? > /tmp/results

Thanks Tony

I'm going to play around with this and see if I can get that output

if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong with that command, I would really appreciate the advice

Thanks
Erin

UPDATE:

the following command works for unix to unix (tested on Solaris10)

(this is a simple way to verify files)

ssh user@hostname test -e file_to_check ; echo $? /tmp/exitstatus

that will give you a 1 or 0 in relation to the file being there or not


Anyways, that does not work with my unix > windows ordeal... I always get 0 exit status

I've tried Tony's other solution regarding ls and using grep for the exit status and that is working for me

If there are any other possible ways I would love to hear it

Kepepcase:
The speech marks around the command "test -e file_to_check ; echo $?" as in:

# ssh user@hostname "test -e file_to_check ; echo $?" > /tmp/exitstatus

ensures that the commands in the speech marks are run on the remote machine, the:
> /tmp/exitstatus
will therefore do its stuff on your local machine and should create the file on the local machine.