How to have local shell variables in a ksh script seen on remove server in SSH block?
I have googled this and found many solutions, but none of them are working for me. I am in a korn shell, most others reference bsh, maybe that is the issue? Anyway, all I am trying to do is use a variable I have declared in my main script in a remote shell I am running through ssh.
So I have a script with code similar to this:
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname << 'ENDSSH'
.
.
if [[ -e ${filepath}${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
But filepath and filename are blank in the remote shell as they are declared locally. How do I get those values seen in the SSH block?
I have googled this and found many solutions, but none of them are working for me. I am in a korn shell, most others reference bsh, maybe that is the issue? Anyway, all I am trying to do is use a variable I have declared in my main script in a remote shell I am running through ssh.
So I have a script with code similar to this:
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname << 'ENDSSH'
.
.
if [[ -e ${filepath}${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
But filepath and filename are blank in the remote shell as they are declared locally. How do I get those values seen in the SSH block?
either:
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname << ENDSSH
.
.
if [[ -e \${filepath}\${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
or
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh -q uid@hostname " \
. \
. \
myRemoteVar='foo' \
echo here's my remoteVar->[\${myRemoteVar}] \
if [[ -e ${filepath}/${filename} ]]; then
.... \
.... \
fi " < /dev/null
# the \${vars} are variables to be evaluated on the REMOTE host
Last edited by vgersh99; 06-21-2019 at 11:24 AM..
Reason: fixed double-quoting in the 2nd suggestion
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:
DJR,
this is not what I suggested and not how to assign/use/display local vs remote vars - please reread my original post.
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh -q uid@hostname " \
. \
. \
myRemoteVar='foo' \
echo here's my remoteVar->[\${myRemoteVar}] \
if [[ -e ${filepath}/${filename} ]]; then
.... \
.... \
fi " < /dev/null
# the \${vars} are variables to be evaluated on the REMOTE host
I think that code in unquoted here documents is problematic: too many levels of quoting.
In zsh you can chain two (or more) redirections
Code:
#!/bin/zsh
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname << EOT1 << 'ENDSSH'
filepath=$filepath
filename=$filename
EOT1
.
.
if [[ -e ${filepath}${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
The first part EOT1 is unquoted and assigns the local variables to the remote variables.
Instead of directly feeding the login shell (where ssh might complain that a tty is missing) it is more correct to run an explicit /bin/sh (or /bin/bash)
Code:
ssh uid@hostname /bin/sh -s << EOT1 << 'ENDSSH'
Having this, with any standard shell you can pass the local variables as parameters
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname /bin/sh -s $filepath $filename << 'ENDSSH'
filepath=$1
filename=$2
.
.
if [[ -e ${filepath}${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
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Thank you for that MadeinGermany. The first way didn't work (maybe because I'm using korn shell) but the second one using /bin/sh -s $filepath $filename << 'ENDSSH' did the trick.
How to get variable values back from commands executing remotely via ssh.
So now I can not figure out how to return a value from within this SSH block. So as in the above discussion I can pass parameters from my local machine to the commands running on a remote machine via ssh:
Code:
filepath=/xxx/yyy/zzz/
filename=xyz
ssh uid@hostname /bin/sh -s $filepath $filename << 'ENDSSH'
filepath=$1
filename=$2
.
.
if [[ -e ${filepath}${filename} ]]; then
....
....
fi
ENDSSH
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