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Hi, i'm trying to gather details from remote hosts and want them to be written to my local linux machine from where i'm using SSH. My command looks some thing like this

Code:

ssh -q remotehost 'bash -s' <command.txt

where command.txt is a file in my local machine containing

Code:

ps -ef |grep httpd | wc -l >>output.txt

My requirement is to get the output.txt file to be generated in my local machine instead of the remote host. Please help. Thanks.

Omit the remote redirection and use a local one, then use a loop to go through the list of remote hosts. Here is a sketch:

Code:

CMD="ps | grep http | wc -l"
for host in list_of_remote_hosts ; do
     ssh -q "$host" "bash -s $CMD" >> /path/to/logfile
done

I hope this helps.

bakunin