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I'm having a brain freeze moment. I've created a ksh script in AIX that ssh's to a remote server, executes some commands, and then logs out. All of this is sent to a file. I then have the script cat the file so i can see the output. Even though the cat command is outside of the remote session part; when the entire script completes my screen jumps to the top of the window.

How can I stop it from doing this? I just want it all on my screen without automatically jumping to the top of my screen.

Here's an example of my script:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

server=username@12.5.5.1

ssh -t -t $server << EOF > /home/test/temporary.txt
cd bin
pwd
exit
\p
EOF

sed '2,5d' /home/test/temporary.txt > /home/test/location.txt
cat /home/test/location.txt
rm /home/test/temporary.txt

Here's my screen output:

Code:

# /home/test/testvar.ksh
username@12.5.5.1's password:     PASSWORD ENTERED HERE

Screen automatically jumps to the top of the screen:

Code:

#

I have to scroll up on my screen to view the output which I want to avoid, please advise:

Code:

Last login: Sat Nov 15 09:09:14 2014 from 12.5.5.1
[username@server ~]$ cd bin
[username@server bin]$ pwd
/home/user/bin
[username@server bin]$ exit
logout
#

Does the remote account have a ~/.bash_logout or something similar for its shell?

... or a login/.rc script that could issue a reset command? What be the remote shell? Are those two -t options to ssh necessary as you are running the script interactively? What does the \p do?

Hello,
If I dont put "ssh -t -t" I would get the message "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal."

I have removed the /p as that was a mistake on my end. I was just testing different options earlier

I know this is a dumb question but how can I check what the remote shell is?

Login interactively and echo $0 or echo $SHELL. If you are looking for another username, you could grep username /etc/passwd and find it as the last entry..

Its

Code:

/bin/bash