Need help with shell scripts

thorney · 11-27-2005, 10:37 PM

Hi,

How do I write a shell script that logs me into a remote machine, executes commands on the remote machine and then exits and returns me to my local machine prompt? (I have setup ssh to allow key authentication.) Any help would be awesome!!

thanks

Tinkster · 11-27-2005, 10:59 PM

Something like this?

Code:

#!/bin/bash
scp file user@remote-machine:/path/to/file
ssh user@remote-machine "commands; ..."

Cheers,
Tink

thorney · 11-27-2005, 11:09 PM

Ya I guess. So I take it that any commands that are in quotes get executed on the remote machine!?

Tinkster · 11-27-2005, 11:17 PM

That's right. If it's only a single command you can skip the
quotes, too.

Cheers,
Tink

thorney · 11-27-2005, 11:18 PM

Thanks Tinkster